Adrienne Mayor Quotes
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
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I've gone as far as I can. It's time to turn over the reins.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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I thought I was in loveA couple of times beforeWith the girl next door.But that was long before I met you.Now I'm sure that I won't forget you.And I thank my lucky starsThat you are who you are.And not just another lovely ladySent down to break my heart.
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I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.
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In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
