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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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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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Fuck ya'll with a sick dick semiautomatic no click click.
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Love has more depth as you get older.
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Land is everything.
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It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
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I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.
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Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
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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.
