Simon Schama Quotes

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

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DanceI AmInevitableNeverOldUp

The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I'll just drink water, or maybe I'll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I'll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.

Jinder Mahal

WaterCoffeeWake UpBlackWeek

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

John McGraw

GoodGreatnessTeamWinThreeClub

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Robert MacNeil

MotherOpinionThoughtGenerationUp

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

DeathEnergyRevolutionCloudNew

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.

Mike Pompeo

WomenMenPoliticsYourselfChoose

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Joshua Ostrander

BestMeThinkBittersweetJustIdea

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Jonathan Carroll

RestYouDamnWriteJustAbout

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

WorkWordsPurposeYouLineFifty

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Bob Dylan

MeChaosAcceptSureWhether

I love arts and crafts.

Allison Janney

LoveArtsCraftsI Love

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

Pieter Zeeman

DirectionNowTwoUpForceOpposite

On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

Pilou Asbaek

Looking ForwardLookingForwardMore

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