Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.Eric Hobsbawm
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz -
Sharing is the essence of social media.
Zoe Sugg -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
Sally Kirkland -
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
Jack Youngblood -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel -
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine -
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
Walter Isaacson
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
Yanis Varoufakis -
I am happy in Paris.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
Verne Troyer -
When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
Kangana Ranaut -
I am not as simple as I look.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
Tabitha Soren
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I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.
Janet Evanovich -
I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
Og Mandino -
I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
Eric Hobsbawm