Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
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Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
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Truth does not judge.
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There's no map for being an artist.
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A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.
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In planes, everybody pees on the floor. Fact.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
