Mary Beard Quotes
I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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I wear high heels and dresses. I am a total girly girl.
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
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Ask 'why' five times about every matter.
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I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
