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Simon Schama Quotes

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too.

Simon Schama

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: February 13, 1945

Topics

Early Late Temple Remembering Built

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Jim Rohn

Future Time Experience Past You Up

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Great Hero Bold Difficulties See

I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.

Jeremy Scott

Paris First Runway Collection Moved

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.

Andreja Pejic

Confidence Face You Skin Healthy

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

Matthew Desmond

Poor Desperation Housing High Cost

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

Andy Serkis

Art Me Transformation Believe I Can

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Michael Bloomberg

Business Decisions America Results

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Robert Emmet

Power Man Memory Situation Prejudice

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

Rory Bremner

Leader War Sorry Ignore Talking Ask

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Rosa Luxemburg

Life Maturity People City Action

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Jason Reitman

Life Love Coffee Sacrifice Self

I've always wanted to be a part of the 'Star Wars' world; the films were very important to me. All my older cousins were huge fans, and I wanted to belong to that community.

Diego Luna

Community Me World Important Cousins