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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Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!And if upon its stillness fallThe visions of a busy brain,We'll have our pleasure o'er again,To warm the heart, to charm the sight,Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.
Joanna Baillie
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
Walt Disney
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del Rey
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
Sam Shepard
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Well, as soon as he Trump travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease fire, the release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends eleven hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.
Hillary Clinton
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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