Leopold von Ranke Quotes
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
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The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.
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The president of the United States, the most radical president in American history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people. He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there's nothing you can do about it.' Now, that's where we are.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
