Mary Beard Quotes

My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.

Mary Beard

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It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Joe Morton

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As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

John Gruber

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If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

Andrew Haigh

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I am talking about strategies that were developed, working with the Trump campaign. I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump's mouth was a play from Putin's playbook.

Maxine Waters

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We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

Michael Davis

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I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Steve Berry

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It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Michael Rispoli

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I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Colm Meaney

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I feel like people put pressure on me, and that makes me put pressure on myself, which isn't needed.

Christian Pulisic

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I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Clarence Thomas

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A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

Boots Riley

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