Simon Schama Quotes

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Simon Schama

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LifePoetryBookYouPlaceDrama

But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

Jim Bunning

StruggleFightWarCommunismWorld

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

Jenny Shipley

LifeOpportunityExperienceDiversity

Older students know what they want, which is good.

Andre Aciman

GoodKnowWantStudentsOlderWhich

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Max von Sydow

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It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

Tory Lanez

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I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

Rufus Wainwright

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Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

Michael Nutter

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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

Piers Anthony

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To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

Shahid Khan

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Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

Tim Bray

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You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.

Richard Madden

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I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

Mark V. Hurd

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