Margaret Mead Quotes
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.Margaret Mead
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
Kary Mullis -
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
Oscar de la Renta -
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
Oscar Isaac -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley Hall -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
Gary Lineker -
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter -
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White -
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn -
I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
Patrice Motsepe -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.
Jason Reitman -
It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
Bob Beauprez -
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.
Alicia Sacramone -
Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
Charlie Brooker -
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.
Margaret Mead