A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
Saina Nehwal -
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso -
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Nancy Reagan -
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh -
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen -
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk -
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
Oscar Isaac -
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
Daniel Espinosa -
Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
Zoe Foster Blake
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
Nathaniel Branden -
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
Umberto Eco -
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
J. B. Smoove -
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell -
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
Peter Weller -
You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
Carey Mulligan -
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.
Aaron Staton -
I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.
Christopher Guest -
What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.
Allen Iverson -
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor