Bernard Bailyn Quotes
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.
