A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
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When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.
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It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.
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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
