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Norman Davies Quotes

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 8, 1939

Topics

Education Long Alien Land Educated

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Fame Now Twice Order Claim Guess

Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and still considered himself culturally Jewish: Cardinal Lustiger.

Born Jewish Cardinal Senior Modern

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

Roger Bannister

World You Three University Organized

I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.

Smart Genius Right Real Mate Area

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Love Good Day Job Control Good Job

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Man Talking Person Will Own Rather

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Work Hard Work Discipline Hard Fred

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

Immigrants Been Entrepreneurial Bunch

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Family Good Judge Friends Worry You

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Lewis B. Smedes

I Am Support Me Think View Find

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Time Space People Me Brain Eating

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Leader Me Stop Way My Own Never

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