Gaetano Salvemini Quotes

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

Gaetano Salvemini

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• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

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• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

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• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  

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• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  

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• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

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• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

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• I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.

  

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• I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

  

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• Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

  

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• A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

  

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• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

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• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  

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• Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination.

  

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• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.

  

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• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  

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• The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.

  

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• My Lords, the key of India is not Merv, or Herat, or Candahar. The key of India is London. The majesty of sovereignty, the spirit and vigour of your Parliaments, the inexhaustible resources of a free, an ingenious, and a determined people-these are the keys of India.

  

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• Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

  

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• The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

  

  Gaetano Salvemini
  • History
  • Imagination
  • Pieces