Mary Beard Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
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If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.
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Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
