Neil MacGregor Quotes
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.
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I think family is so important.
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Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
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Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.