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Robert Darnton Quotes

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1939

Topics

History Ideas Thought Literature

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

True Shape Things Like Shaped

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

Learning Me Baby Little Girls Sick

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Home Shadow King People Happiest

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

Growing Up Growing Nice Opera Singer

I'm no superman.

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

Change Music Architecture Painting

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

Life Face Party Stop Talk Mean

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Change Time Start Evening End Go

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

World Never Too Late Late Never Our

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

Positive Music Think Philosophy Been

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

I Am Memory American Citizen Expert

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

Love Brain Song Every Sappy Ever

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