Mary Ritter Beard Quotes
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
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Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
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Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
