Mary Beard Quotes

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

Mary Beard

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Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.

Jenny Packham

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I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

John Oliver

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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

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I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.

John Mellencamp

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Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

Stephanie Martson

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I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Simone Elkeles

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God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Monica Johnson

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I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

David Sedaris

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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Bryan Adams

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

Bob Goff

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The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

Brit Hume

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For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.

August Krogh

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