Mary Beard Quotes

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

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When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

Jim Coleman

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'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Jeremy Corbyn

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The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

John James Audubon

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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

Tom Stoppard

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I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

Michiel Huisman

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Kishore Kumar was multi-talented and original, so I really respect him.

Mohit Chauhan

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If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Dick Schaap

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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

Colson Whitehead

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The more natural, the better.

Brandy Norwood

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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Alfred Einstein

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In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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