Mary Ritter Beard Quotes
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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In the real world, children love me.
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I think it's nice to work and then have success.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.
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I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.
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Cyclists need to obey the Highway Code, not run red lights, and not ride with iPods on, and motorists need to be more respectful and look out for cyclists.
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The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
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Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.
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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
