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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Problem Long Tyranny Personal Tyrant

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

John Ashbery

Mind Write Out Experiences About

I don't think men really fall in love with the outspoken girl.

Jennifer Coolidge

Love Girl Men Think Fall Really

Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.

Robert Love

You Structure Need Boundaries Share

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Michael Cunningham

Language Find Down Go Way First

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

Trent Reznor

Culture Day People Cool Interesting

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Jasper Johns

Art Birds Museum Nothing Aware

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Joseph Hume

Her England Raw Materials Imports

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

David Walliams

Comedy First Radio Would Who TV

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

Art Donovan

Mother Walk Born Three I Was Born

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

Winona LaDuke

Moving Agriculture Air Organic Moved

Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

Opinion Conscience Public Opinion

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

Sylvia Earle

History Ocean Impact Place Now Turn