David Cannadine Quotes
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
