Fernand Braudel Quotes
The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.Fernand Braudel
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy -
I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran -
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt -
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
Kapil Sibal -
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack Obama -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
Gary McCord -
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher -
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson -
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
Lajos Egri
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They have a problem with unmarried women who think, 'No, we don't need national defense, we need our birth control paid for.' And why? Because single women look at the government as their husbands. 'Please provide for me, please take care of me.'
Ann Coulter -
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.
Chris Sarandon -
A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
John Carmack -
The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
Nelsan Ellis -
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)
John Hodgman -
The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.
Fernand Braudel