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

• I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• 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
  • Problem

• 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 find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

  

  Jack Miller
  • People
  • Angry
  • Pray

• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  

  William McKinley
  • Night
  • Tyranny
  • Guidance

• We do not even inquire whether a black man is a rebel in arms, or not, if he is black, be he friend or foe, he is thought best kept at a distance. It is hardly possible God will let us succeed while such enormities are practiced.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • God
  • Black
  • Friend

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Future

• 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