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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#chair #distant #door #down #duty

There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country. ↗

— John Perkins

#american #come #conclusion #country #course

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#becomes #develop #extremely #important #judge

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#eighth #fight #get #i #into

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#beauty #failing #failings #naked #nude

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#camera #constantly #degrees #depicting #else

I don't have any preferences. I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#based #before #challenged #challenging #criteria

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#based #before #challenged #challenging #criteria

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #career #chance #comfortable #doing