Mary Beard Quotes
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Ed Markey -
I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
Taylor Schilling -
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
Nathan Fillion -
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Naveen Jain
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
Harold Bloom -
Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
A.J. Styles -
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy -
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
Rachel Sklar -
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser -
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P. J. Harvey -
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice -
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
Patricia Arquette -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
Sam Graves
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To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.
Jason Momoa -
There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
Patricia Heaton -
It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.
Jerry Hall -
When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.
Ashish Sharma -
A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
Mary Beard