Donald Kagan Quotes

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Donald Kagan

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HistoryExperiencePeopleDirection

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Tobolowsky

MemoryBrainForwardMeaningYou

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Steven Chu

TeacherDaySimpleLearnQuestions

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

Simon Armitage

HomeMeWindowWorldLookingDoors

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

Tom Petty

BookDoingYouRulesNeverRadio

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.

Mike Nichols

ArtMeProcessDecisionsEnoughYou

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

Lizzy Caplan

MenStoryQuietKindTwoDate

I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

Jay Roach

EnjoyedPaulDavidRecentlyAnderson

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

January Jones

FunHappyBe HappySweetThinkPlay

Drake brought me out at the O2 in London and Barclays Center, and I'm on 'More Life.'

Jorja Smith

LifeMeLondonMoreOutCenter

Whenever I played him, I played Superman as if I had a secret that nobody else knew.

Dean Cain

NobodySupermanSecretHimKnewHad

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brian Eno

DemocracyEasyDisappearActually

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

Bob Beckel

FreedomIdeasFreeSpeechYouMean

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