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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Fast learners win.
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
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It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
