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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 27, 1965

Topics

School Control You Nothing Europe

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

Time Money You Eat Up Prepared

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Myself Book Think Page Matter See

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opportunity You Talk Well Absent

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Robert Gottlieb

Language Now More Half Seems Been

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

Leadership Team Organization You New

Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes.

Drop Touchdown Passes

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

Domhnall Gleeson

World Person Chemistry Read Whom

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

People You Acting Actor Realize

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Learning Respect Past People Society

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

Colin Trevorrow

Best Together Lose Place Movies Why

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Peter Greenaway

Personality Body Cinema First

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

Love Technology Money People Doing

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