Mary Beard Quotes
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
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The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.
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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.
