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Norman Davies Quotes

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Champion View Say People Say

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Melissa McCarthy

School Thought I Can Know Said Take

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want - you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

Yourself World Think American You

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

Past Government Situation Party Same

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.

American Long Career Place Heroes

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

Great Day Important Say Oil Solar

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

People Anchor Some People Pretend

Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.

Good Talent Activities Exceptionally

I grew up dancing, so that was always my first dream. But I also have a passion for acting. I would love to step inside of a character and be somebody that I'm not, because I feel like it just gives me an outlet to express myself without being me.

Love Passion Character Myself Step

When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.

Good Sad People Sadness Good People

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Moment Negative Better Dangerous Now

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Alone Bible More Been Books Than

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on 'Oprah.'

Home Daughter Me Chicago Dope Kids

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