Penelope Tree Quotes
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.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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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.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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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.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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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.
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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.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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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.
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I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
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All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.
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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.
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Why must everybody like you?
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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.
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
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We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
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To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.
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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.
