Simon Schama Quotes

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Simon Schama

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FamilyHomeFoodRememberYouPlace

When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous.

Jeremy Robinson

DayMeFatResultCircumstancesEat

If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.

John Burnside

MeBelieveStoryYouChooseTell

Lash extensions. I hate wearing mascara because it runs all over my face.

Sofia Richie

HateFaceOverBecauseMascaraLash

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

Lisa Murkowski

HistoryUglyEndVotingAmerican

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

Chris Crutcher

LiveFightSchoolWorldCareerKind

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

Antony Gormley

GreatTimeArchitectureSpaceThink

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

Scoot McNairy

LifeTimeMy LifeThreeMoviesWill

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Nicolas Chamfort

WaterRoseThinkYouMade

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

StormStandYouTakePresidencyGot

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.

Jamie Bamber

NowSameScaredBritishOptions

I used to pretend to be an expert on various kinds of music, even if they didn't really interest me.

Fumio Sasaki

MusicMeExpertPretendUsedKinds

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Eugene Ormandy

YouNervousMeanMakeUnfortunately

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