Mary Beard Quotes

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

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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.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Welcome
  • Homosexuals

• 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.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Children
  • Way
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Good
  • Children
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• 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.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• 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.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Long
  • Human
  • Decisions

• I'm not signing on to direct 'Black Panther.' I think I'll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they're fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

  

  Kathleen Parker
  • People
  • Power

• Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Power
  • Night
  • Solitude

• I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Risk
  • Instincts
  • Gut

• At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

  

  John Keats
  • Quality
  • Literature
  • Achievement

• I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Black