Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
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Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
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The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch.' Opening line.
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When I tell him that Im falling in loveWhy does he say'Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry'?
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Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.
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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
