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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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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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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The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
