Adrienne Mayor Quotes
The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?
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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
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We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. ... One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math.
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The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.
