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Adrienne Mayor Quotes

In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1946

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Light River Long Sometimes April

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

Michael Arrington

Women Problem Doing Enough Down

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

Michael Douglas

People Remember You Strangers Person

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

Amanda Seyfried

You Just Word Pronounce Use

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Literature Done Movies Inspired Lot

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

Woman I Am People Mind Opinion Care

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Age Myself Men Me Legal Hands

I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.

Myself Hotel Fancy Days Stay Paid

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

Powerful Watch Press Throw Supposed

I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.

Sports Personality You Three Accept

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Memory Never Dialogue Take Notes

Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Truth Time People Career Wonder Try

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Life Mother God Me Born Nothing

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