Bruce Jackson Quotes

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Necessary

• I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Experience

• Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Group

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Decision
  • Without

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Power
  • Party
  • Office

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

  

  Christo
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

  

  Dylan Penn

• Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • History
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Together
  • History
  • Band

• Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • Important
  • History