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I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.

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• For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Woman
  • Feel
  • Scientist

• I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Eat
  • Careful
  • Nutrition

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Writing
  • Tragedy
  • Three

• The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Way
  • Lose
  • Election

• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Long
  • Man
  • Justice

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Animals
  • Relatives

• I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Equality
  • Discrimination

• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Long
  • Television
  • Blessing

• I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Live
  • Edge

• The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Future

• In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Believe

• Why must everybody like you?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Why

• The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Democracy

• When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Product
  • Activities
  • Casinos

• Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Insults
  • Dismiss

• To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Keys
  • Novelists

• At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

  

  David Beckham
  • Different
  • Dad
  • Husband

• I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don't matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.

  

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