Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I'm cranky.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
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Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
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The good is the enemy of the best.
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I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
