Mary Beard Quotes

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffer

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Power
  • Law

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack.

  

  Terry Gross
  • House
  • Government
  • Facts

• When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Job
  • Easy
  • Finding

• In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Art
  • History
  • Fun

• The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • History

• My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Job
  • History