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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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
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The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
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94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to peel away a certain amount of artifice. When you're on set that much, there's a license to let the character emerge from the work itself.
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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
