Andrew Bird Quotes
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Andrew Bird
Quotes to Explore
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
Zaha Hadid
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
Caitlin Moran
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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
Neel Mukherjee
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The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
Charles Dickens
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it attracts and the ingredients it grows. There are plenty of other places in the world with wonderful natural resources, but the people who come here to pursue their passions for food and cooking - they are one of a kind.
Daniel Humm
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
Marianne Williamson
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My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Andrew Bird
