Mary Beard Quotes
I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen? ... That debt...is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants...are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.
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I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
