Peter Conrad Quotes

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Peter Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

Jill Greenberg

WorkArtSchoolMeIdeasDirection

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

Ann McLane Kuster

WomenWarBelievePoliticalDown

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

Roger Rees

MindChoicesOne WordMeanThings

They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

Rose Byrne

GoodPeopleThinkLookSeriousJust

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

Ruth Reichl

CookingSimpleJobPeopleChefFeel

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

Michele Bachmann

WorkEducationChildrenPeopleMe

Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

MeOrganizationMovingTransformation

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.

Jason Aldean

WorkRespectGreatTogetherThink

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Constantin Stanislavski

BeautyWorldPushFindRunWay

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

Bon Scott

LifeNeverOutRoomGiveMessage

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

Bruce Springsteen

GoodSchoolWritingBetterEnglish

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

Pia Toscano

WalkAmericaDreamKnowWantStage

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