Edmund Morgan Quotes
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
