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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.
Mary Beard
TruthSpeakThinkWrongSometimes
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently.
MyselfI AmPeopleThinkYouLook
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.
SoulBeingFineDecentThen
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
PeopleVoiceThinkWebWhoOutlet
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'
PossibleTryLineSeeSideWherever
One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
PowerfulValuesKnowAlwaysShare
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
FaithMeYouMoreAskLittle
One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
PersonCivilisationAnother
When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?
WorkWomenWomanMeLookingLook
The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
WorldWayAncientDescribingReally
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
WomenSilenceDesireNeverCultural
Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
CareAppearanceNobodyWhoSome
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