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 shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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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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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
