David Cannadine Quotes
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
David Cannadine
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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
Ralph Fiennes
Here files of pins extend their shining rows,Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Vanity
Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
Alison Bechdel
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
Dawn Steel
Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
Lauren Lapkus
When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.
Al Jourgensen
1000 Homo DJs
Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.
Jan Schakowsky
As crazy as it may sound, it's like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it's just me and my candy.
Jason Mitchell
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Charley Pride
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
Don Imus
I love college life.
Lil' Romeo
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
Dylan Thomas
Girls love emotion.
Prince Royce
... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.
John Bardeen
You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
Maxwell Caulfield
Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
Martin Garrix
Area21
We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.
Gary Hustwit
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
David Cannadine