Mary Beard Quotes

What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.

Mary Beard

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MeThoughtGenerationClassicsIdea

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

Anderson East

Growing UpChurchYouGrowingKid

People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

OceanMountainPeopleLandscapeOil

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

Stevie Nicks

MyselfMeMomCareTake CareTake

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Tom G. Palmer

SmallSurvivalCooperationHumanNor

If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, 'This is what my day is like,' it would have been really helpful.

Robert Ben Garant

DayCollegeSaidRealHelpfulUs

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

Martina McBride

LifeGodMeWorldGiftBetter

Every player would love to get to the absolute top, and Real Madrid is it.

Luis Suarez

LoveTopRealGetWouldMadrid

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Jonathan Frakes

AlwaysGoingEnjoyed

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Dick Van Dyke

MeYoungSayTryHimDays

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

Clint Smith

PeopleBelieveCreateWantMyths

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

Anthony Doerr

MemoriesMeResearchCuriosityGlass

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Marianne Moore

MeThinkYouI CanWhyTry

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