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
Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
Bruce Rauner
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
Charles Dickens
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.
Kofi Annan
People should follow their own energy.
William Schutz
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