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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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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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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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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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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It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.
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San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
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When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.
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The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
