Mary Beard Quotes
Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
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I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
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If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.
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I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
