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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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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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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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
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I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
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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.
