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.Adrienne Mayor
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Zoltan Kodaly -
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
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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.
Langston Hughes -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman -
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.
Gary Johnson -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton -
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
Zoe Sugg -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
Zendaya -
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.
Adam Ferrara -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Raghuram Rajan
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Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
John McWhorter -
Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
Bethenny Frankel -
I love to engage with people who come to see us.
Joan Jett -
There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.
Bryce Dessner The National -
If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.
Chade-Meng Tan -
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.
Adrienne Mayor