Mary Beard Quotes

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Mary Beard

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• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Alone

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Future
  • Success
  • Past

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Always
  • Tell

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Flattery

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • High
  • Pretty

• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Strong
  • Commitment
  • Florida

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.

  

  The Weeknd
  • World
  • Music
  • Real

• There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

  

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
  • Riches
  • Counts

• Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • War
  • High
  • Poverty

• I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Men
  • Character
  • Giving

• There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Diversity