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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
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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.
