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Norman Davies Quotes

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live People Create Off Necessary

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

Home Day Smart Reach Media Back

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Political Environment Violence Create

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

Love Change Man Mistake People You

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Good Great Best Enemy Always

Israel and the United States have been locked in a mutually necessary and beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship for more than 60 years.

Relationship More Years Israel Been

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Ruth J. Simmons

Leader Ambition Nothing Worse Who

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Life Think You Kind Anything Answer

You have to believe in yourself. You need to have the audacity to be great.

Believe In Yourself Great Yourself

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Storm Anger Thinking Enough You Mad

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.

Sports Dance School Computers Gym

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Music Circumstances Affect Playing

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

Love People Think Loved Go How Far

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