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Tony Judt Quotes

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

Tony Judt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: January 2, 1948 - August 6, 2010

Topics

Believe Better Find Say Conviction

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Joe Biden

Fear Government People World Believe

I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.

Andrew Cherng

Want Poor Successful Wanted

I don't care about writing really.

Ang Lee

Writing Care About Really

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

Jeff Conaway

Life Change My Life You Place Got

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Sun Tzu

Enemy Must Advantage Rewards Them

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science History Time Discipline Past

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Tom Stoppard

Live World You Reward Way Try

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Saying Think Decisions You Know May

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

Mary Gordon

Life Thought Better My Life Going

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

Mary Steenburgen

People Think You Summer Want Movies

My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

Mike Rowe

Work Mother Community Time Broken

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

Molly Bloom

Family Parents Me World Driving Pay