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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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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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.
