G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
Frances Beinecke
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne Dyer
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Rachel Zoe
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.
Gene Luen Yang
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An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.
Aaron Rose
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Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.
Anand Gopal
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Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
Jameela Jamil
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I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.
Kimbal Musk
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
