Peggy Whitson Quotes

My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.

Peggy Whitson

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I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jim Dale

GoodLaughEasyWayCleverClean

I want to put H&M and Zara out of business.

Jennifer Hyman

BusinessWantOutPut

I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

John Knoll

BestJobTryingJustTechniqueUse

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.

Matthew Stafford

DoingLiftDetroitWholeEverybody

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

Jeannette Walls

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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean de La Fontaine

BeastSkinBearNeverSellBefore

A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke

NegativeNeverFinished

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

Toni Servillo

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At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

FitnessStartBuildRelationships

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

Rupert Friend

WorkGreatPeopleSocksTalkBuy

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Josh Hartnett

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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

Anne McCaffrey

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