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.Eric Hobsbawm
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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.
Edgardo Osorio -
I'm cranky.
Larry David -
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
Karl Liebknecht -
Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
Carly Patterson -
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
Oskar Schindler
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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.
Nancy A. Collins -
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde -
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
T Bone Burnett -
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Brown Campbell -
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
G. Stanley Hall -
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.
Yves Behar
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
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.
Rafael Nadal -
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.
Jack Prelutsky -
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
Vanessa Paradis -
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott -
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Gavin Newsom -
But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
Jack Scalia -
The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.
David Souter -
We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
Chris Frantz Talking Heads -
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
David Johansen -
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.
Eric Hobsbawm