A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
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My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
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People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.
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Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
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We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
