A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.A. J. P. Taylor
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
Fiona Apple -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
Frances Bay -
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
Gabrielle Union -
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
Aasif Mandvi -
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen -
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
Jackee Harry -
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
Natascha McElhone -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius -
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
Ed Asner -
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Naveen Jain -
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
Viggo Mortensen -
A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.
Albert Einstein -
People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
Lee Westwood -
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin -
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
A. J. P. Taylor