Mary Beard Quotes
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
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My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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And now to the decisive factor: our boundless urge to follow and serve, to worship anyone or anything, to believe blindly and with doglike loyalty, all advice to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.
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Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.
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As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
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I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
