Mary Beard Quotes
A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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There are a few things for the New York actor that you hope to one day cross off the bucket list. One of them was I got to do an episode of 'Blue Bloods,' which was really fun.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I want the world, I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket,/It's my bar of chocolate/Give it to me now! I want today/I want tomorrow . . . And if I don't get the things I am after/I'm going to scream!
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A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.
