Adrienne Mayor Quotes
It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.
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And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
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When you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing.
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
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It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
