Penelope Keith Quotes
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
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I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
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I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
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I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
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The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
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Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
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Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.
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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.
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I love touring, I really do.
