Fernand Braudel Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process.
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In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
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I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a 'classical' training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don't teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.
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Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.
