Andy Hobsbawm Quotes
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.
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I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
