Mary Beard Quotes
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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Tough situations form experiences from which we grow and learn. So I think it’s really better to have gone through tough times than not to have any at all.
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Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing.
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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
