Mary Beard Quotes

In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

Mary Beard

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AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

Jim Brown

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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

John Banville

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I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.

Megyn Kelly

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I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Suge Knight

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I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

Sloane Crosley

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Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

Lou Barlow

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My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.

Chesley Sullenberger

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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Greg Grunberg is so beautiful and charming and funny and heartbreaking.

Annaleigh Ashford

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

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I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Peter Farrelly

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I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.

Seth Priebatsch

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