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Antony Beevor Quotes

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Antony Beevor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: December 14, 1946

Topics

History Sacrifice Understanding Lose

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

Jesmyn Ward

People Reading Black Think Poor

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

Joel McHale

Talent You Get Audition Nail Then

I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!

Andra Day

Mom Crazy Phone Wonder Living Like

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Ann Landers

Today Value People Price Know Many

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Jeff Bezos

You Know Meaningful Most About

I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.

Amal Clooney

Important Things Well Effortless

I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.

Ronnie Corbett

Garden Trapped Palace Castle Been

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Joichi Ito

Relationship Power Money Between

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Chris Colfer

Think Important Seriously Focused

Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.

Claire Messud

Confidence World Awards Wonderful

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

Claire Messud

Easy Why Never Project Always Been

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

Anthony Doerr

Me Sometimes Ask Recommend Readers