Norman Davies Quotes
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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The day with work that must be done snapped at her heels like an untrained pup.
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I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
