Mary Beard Quotes
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
Viktor Orban -
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
Yann Martel -
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
Ingrid Betancourt -
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Paracelsus -
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
Majandra Delfino
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler -
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson -
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
Charlie Chaplin -
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma -
Live your life and forget your age.
Jean Paul
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
Kevin Costner -
I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.
Bennett Miller -
I'm not a big practice guy at all.
Jeff Hardy -
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
Bob Newhart -
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
Adrienne Shelly
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It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
Charlotte Dujardin -
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Louise Brown -
I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?
Montgomery Clift -
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
Faye Wattleton -
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
Jonathan Kozol -
You have to do what you feel comfortable with.
Mary Beard