Adrienne Mayor Quotes
That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they're always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that's just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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I have a couture body.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.
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That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they're always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that's just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity.
