Mary Beard Quotes

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

Mary Beard

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GoodSchoolBetterMoreGotBecause

The power is between your ears.The power is in your heart.

Jim Brown

HeartPowerYourBetween

Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.

Joanna Gaines

BreakfastMomTryingMilkKidLike

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

John King

NewsBreakingSituationsWarsCouple

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

Robert Mondavi

FatherFutureBusinessMeLawyer

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

Andy Serkis

TechnologyAppreciationActingReal

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

John Stamos

MusicHeartPowerTimeBeachDay

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

Alva Myrdal

PeopleWorldTargetCivilizationNow

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

Studs Terkel

PeopleFeelReadySenseI Feel

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.

Travis Kalanick

ServiceSchoolYearEntrepreneurGot

I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

Debbie Reynolds

MotherWordsRichKnowFancyBig

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

Bruce Beutler

TimeSchoolCollegeMedicineStrong

When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of singing,' going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I'm singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it.

Brian Tyree Henry

LovePeopleMeSingingHellFinding

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