Fernand Braudel Quotes
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
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You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
