A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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I feel that if I retire today, I've done enough. I've achieved everything in comedy... I feel I don't need anything else. It's already built.
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The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
