Mary Beard Quotes
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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«The worse the better for all and the worse for all the better, the better for me, yours, political benefit.»
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The Devil is an Ass! fool'd off! and beaten!
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
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The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.
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When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.
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I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
