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Simon Schama Quotes

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nature History Discipline Bible

We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.

Video Games Push Games Interactive

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Andie MacDowell

Family Know Functional Anyone Truly

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Job Opinions Feelings Existence Out

It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.

Life God Relationship Time People

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

Ideas Thought Never Get Would

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Hope Money Talking Look Make Some

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Love Peace You Write Right Seem

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

Knowledge History World Internet

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

Life Make A Difference Someone I Can

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Someone Group Rights Individual Even

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Money Waiting People Socialism Care

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

Christopher Monckton

Me Think Heights Rising Illness Any

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