Mary Beard Quotes
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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War is over if you want it.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
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If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
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I have a song entitled "Just Ain't My Day" that is a straight country song almost. My vocals are very soulful it's a different kind of record but people's response to it is beyond powerful. Proving that good music is good music regardless of the genre.
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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
