Simon Schama Quotes

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Simon Schama

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TimeImpossibleChristianYouEarly

The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

Jimmy Breslin

PeopleBelieveFinancialTelevision

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin

FamilyLoveGreatChildYouBack

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

Stephen F. Lynch

FreeAmericaConsequencesPoorTrade

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Robert Dallek

SuccessWarColdAmericanPlanNow

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Rutger Hauer

LifeYourselfThinkYouGoDone

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Mary Daly

KnowStudyOutBecauseTheology

Technology, you know. I'm pretty horrible. I use it, but mostly I like to view it from afar. But I'm still fascinated by it.

Michael Keaton

TechnologyViewYouKnowPrettyUse

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Mitt Romney

LifeEggUniteSomethingGoesSperm

I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Janina Gavankar

RatherThanDracula

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

MorningNightVoiceThinkCareSame

I take things a little too seriously sometimes.

Cory Michael Smith

SometimesSeriouslyLittleTakeToo

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

Brandon Stanton

BeginningPeopleWorldSayProfound

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