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.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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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.
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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.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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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.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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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.
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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.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?
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Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
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A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
