Mary Beard Quotes
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
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As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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I was not much good as a waitress.
