Tony Judt Quotes

Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

Tony Judt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureMePicturePoliticalFall

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicCoolThinkAlwaysWhere

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

Joe Torre

BaseballBlameThinkProblemNever

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Amity Shlaes

EducationChildAccountingParent

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

Srikumar Rao

PositiveNegativeThinkingYouSide

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Silvan Shalom

ChildrenParentsYouFindLiving

I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.

Ron White

LaughterListeningLovedKidLittle

Middle and high school sucked.

Mija

SchoolHigh SchoolHighMiddle

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Mo Ibrahim

GreatWorldGiftAfricaMeanExpect

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Jonathan Stroud

Things HappenHappenNastyGhostWho

Any time a bar or chef cares more about their own ego than the tastes and comforts of their customers, they should just open a monument to themselves and not a business.

Jon Taffer

BusinessTimeChefEgoMoreBar

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

Bob Schieffer

PastPeopleBackIn The PastUsWho

Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.

Asif Kapadia

LookWillWayDigitalAlwaysFilm

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