Ian Kershaw Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
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If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.
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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
