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'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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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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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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The crisis of European jurisprudence began a century ago with the victory of legal positivism.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
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Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.
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Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
