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.

Fernand Braudel

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• 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.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • You
  • Goal
  • Understand

• The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Couple
  • Makeup
  • Cry

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• 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.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I don't make any money.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Money

• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Time
  • Society

• I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Time
  • May

• 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.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Time
  • World
  • Men