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Peggy Whitson Quotes

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1960

Topics

Me Role Model Know Will First Role

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Love Success Mother Dreams Freedom

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

Understanding Far Most Poems Either

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff Vandermeer

Gritty Type Bands Actually Too iPod

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Father Mother Time Food Restaurant

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Work Down Lost Three Break Get

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Getting Older You Career Living Been

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

Time Up Hanging Away Injury Racket

Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

Work People Me Painting You Ask

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Hate Angry People Care Enough Up

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

Loved Actor Him Because Like He

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

Desire Never Politician Wanted Until

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Christopher Lasch

News Events Propaganda Understood

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