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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The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
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In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin
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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.
