Mary Beard Quotes
I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I never was a very good singer.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
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The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.
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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
