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.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
Emily Weiss
Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.
Dave Bautista
Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.
Lauren Jauregui
Fifth Harmony
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.
Carol Berg
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.
Jeff Greenfield
I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.
Charles Barkley
I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.
Peggy Lipton
I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
Zoe Kravitz
It's hard to know what's going to be replaced by technology tomorrow. It feels like we're all at risk. I feel only safe as an emeritus professor!
Angus Deaton
The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world 'God' is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word 'world'.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.
Faith Adiele
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.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
