Bryan Ward-Perkins Quotes
The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
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Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
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So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
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Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.
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Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.
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For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
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In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.
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I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.
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Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.
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You can plant a dream.
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There's no law that says you have to do what your mentor suggests. And the sooner you learn how to say 'no' confidently, the easier it will be to manage these key relationships.
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I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.
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I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
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For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I like Bobby Flay's attitude and his approach towards food. I think he's just passionate and very honest. I find him very honest about food and cooking and ingredients and I admire that because I think that it's easy to get away from that for various reasons.
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The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.
