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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So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
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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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I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
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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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If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?
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My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
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The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.
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Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.
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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.
