Sarah Parcak Quotes
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
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A movie doesn't open the opening weekend and then get burned -- they don't destroy it. It lasts. So what about Raging Bull ? Do you know how much that made opening weekend? No.
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Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.
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A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
