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Mary Beard Quotes

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

Mary Beard

Recitation: by Male by Female

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History Speak Think Say Talk Out

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Jim Doyle

Government I Am People Budget Try

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

Jim Harrison

Think Thought Long You Fast Go

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Business Negative Think Attention

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Maya Lin

Architecture Loved Logic Perfect

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

Mel Gibson

Great Foundation You Burn Butt Tool

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.

Merce Cunningham

Words Fall Feeling Rise Cry Image

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

John Singleton

Passion Service Me Survive Career

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

Michelle Bachelet

Together Woman I Am Old Joke Sins

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

Judi Shekoni

Love Writing Road Process Down Will

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

Deborah Tannen

Life Mother Daily Culture Daily Life

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Wilson Mizner

You Know Lying Begins Read Sentence

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

Phil Simms

Good You Look Bad Looks Go