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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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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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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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.
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Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
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The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
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But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn't the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people.
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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.
