Adam Hochschild Quotes
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
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French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.
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I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
