Fernand Braudel Quotes
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.
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I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.
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The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. 'For,' they said, 'there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man.' And, so far as they knew, they were quite right.
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I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
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For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
