Eric Hobsbawm Quotes

People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal.

Eric Hobsbawm

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• As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Style
  • Grace

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Before
  • Emancipation

• The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Financial
  • Integrity

• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Work
  • Job
  • Guy

• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Help
  • Think

• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • May
  • Day

• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Popular
  • Said

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Always
  • Labels

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
  • Moving

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Listening
  • Difficult

• For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Children
  • House
  • Words

• Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

  

  David Hockney

• I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Right

• We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

  

  C. N. Annadurai
  • People
  • Citizens
  • India

• People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • People
  • May
  • Night