Robert Darnton Quotes

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

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Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Michael Jackson

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I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

Michael Azerrad

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We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

Simon Wiesenthal

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I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

Robert Duvall

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We're simply trying to say that Congress has a constitutional role to approve any deal, to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Not today, not tomorrow, not ten years from now.

Tom Cotton

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I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Lord Mountbatten

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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Loretta Lynch

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Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I don't think the Whataburger would dunk on the In-N-Out Burger, but I never really liked Whataburger or all the other burgers. McDonald's is decent, I guess, but no, the In-N-Out Burger kills them all.

Dirk Nowitzki

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

Pierre Bayle

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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it.

Kristin Chenoweth

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