Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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We now come to the question of applying the observational tests to earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. It now turns out that... all such theories are in conflict with observational requirements.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.
