Simon Schama Quotes

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

Simon Schama

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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Jim Hightower

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I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Robert Mankoff

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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Robert Orben

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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Steve Jobs

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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Steve Wozniak

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

Ciara

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I didn't intend to become an actor.

Anthony Quinn

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In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

William H. Wharton

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins

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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

James Rainwater

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No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Evander Holyfield

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