Bernard Bailyn Quotes

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

Bernard Bailyn

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• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Director
  • Project

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Humor

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

• Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Vision
  • Better
  • Visionary

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• The revolution starts at the bottom.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Revolution
  • Bottom
  • Starts

• Weber is the only one who really deals with the problem of causes or approaches the material from that angle that can alone yield an answer to such questions, that is, the angle of comparative history in the broad sense.

  

  Frank Knight
  • History
  • Alone

• My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart just one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Effort
  • Communication
  • Historical

• The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Literature
  • Revolution