Mary Beard Quotes
One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
Mary Beard
Quotes to Explore
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
Zubin Mehta
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant
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Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Eckhart Tolle
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
Faith Ringgold
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Edgar Wright
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
Felix Frankfurter
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Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.
Camille
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Maajid Nawaz
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I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.
Jeff Duncan
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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.
Edgar Allan Poe
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
Mary Beard
