Mary Beard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
-
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
-
I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
-
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
-
America is another name for opportunity.
-
Being queen is overrated.
-
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
-
Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
-
I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
-
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
-
In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
-
I think human societies tend to be problematic.
-
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
-
When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
-
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
-
Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
-
The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
-
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
-
I'm not a New York snob.
-
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
-
You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
