Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
Eric Hobsbawm
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
Nancy McKeon
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
Walter Cronkite
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
Victor Pinchuk
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi
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I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
Daniel Cormier
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It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
Orlando Bloom
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One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Omar Ahmad
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Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.
Samuel Alito
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When they would speak earlier, they would make fun of me. But if we had got 25 out of 26 Gujarat Lok Sabha seats also, I would have got a beating. But I thank Gujarat for the 26-seat BJP clean sweep. I was told, in Gujarat, almost 60 percent of people voted for BJP, That is a new misaal paradigm in India.
Narendra Modi
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Bob Dylan
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..but what a pity that I did not come here in Venice when I was younger and more adventurous.
Claude Monet
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In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
Anton Chekhov
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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Donald Johanson
