Mary Renault Quotes
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
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Truth is its own reward.
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Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
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Authority to heal is given from on high.
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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
