Adrienne Mayor Quotes
I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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Meghan Trainor is my female crush because she's just fierce.
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When polled on Donald Trump's agenda, though pluralities of young people oppose his policies on immigration and healthcare, there is one issue where Trump's position wins outright majority support, even among young Democrats: trade.
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Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.
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We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
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'If the Jews were killed at Auschwitz or Treblinka or anywhere else...it wasn't a crime because they were Jews, it was a crime because they were innocent Jews who were being killed. It was their innocence that made...it a crime and not their Jewishness that made it a crime.'
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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
