Simon Schama Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
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Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
