A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
Oscar Isaac
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
Daniel Espinosa
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
Zoe Foster Blake
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
Patricia Clarkson
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'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
Peter Ackroyd
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Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.
Ava DuVernay
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'Tis certainly a kind of indignity to philosophy, whose sovereign authority ought every where to be acknowledg'd, to oblige her on every occasion to make apologies for her conclusions, and justify herself to every particular art and science, which may be offended at her.
David Hume
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Tariq Ramadan
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor
