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Peggy Whitson Quotes

Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Drive Desire Important Become How

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection Man Enough Admit Insight

The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.

Roberto Azevedo

Future Best Improve System Reform

I'm very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I'm like, 'I want to know the answer.'

Millie Bobby Brown

Silly Serious Know Want Will Ask

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

Tea People Me Saying Country Up

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

People World Think You Acting Box

I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.

Day Kitchen Thought Doing Career

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.

Children Day Mind Parent I Can Done

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Arthur Koestler

Life Science Progress Desert Trail

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

You Find Play Sometimes Finds

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

History Art People Kings Remembered

When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

Chance Think You Lazy Want Become

My nine-year-old was trying to read my spiel. When she tried to pronounce the word 'pharmaceutical,' it was frightening. She would love to argue in the Supreme Court one day. My son asked me, 'Mommy, why do you have to have so many arguments? Why can't you have agreements?'

Love Son Day Me Trying You

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