Mary Beard Quotes
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
Mary Beard
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
E. F. Benson
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam Kinison
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
Taron Egerton
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
Laura Bush
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
Maisie Williams
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I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
Bill Pullman
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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama
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We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.
Cobie Smulders
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
Mary Beard