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.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Father
  • Fantastic
  • Brothers

• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Research

• 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.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• 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.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

  

  Washed Out
  • Everything
  • Computer
  • Hiding

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Up
  • College
  • Chemistry

• 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.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Home

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

  

  Dario Fo

• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Age
  • Identity
  • Individual

• I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • People
  • Way
  • Movement

• When the Head is Rotten, It Affects the Whole Body

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

• There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Life

• I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World
  • Women