Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Carl L. Becker

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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Movies
  • Choice

• A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Freedom
  • Day
  • Name

• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Destination

• A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Up
  • Space
  • Football

• The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Data

• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Perfect

• Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Men

• I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • True

• The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Different
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • People

• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Together
  • Technology

• It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

  

  Prince Philip

• Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • People
  • Music

• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • History

• Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Country
  • History

• The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'

  

  John Drane
  • Book
  • History
  • Religious

• I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Stop
  • Learning

• All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • History
  • Determination