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Norman Davies Quotes

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job Reality Difference Myth Show

I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.

Day Every Day Acting Bed Out Get

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Meister Eckhart

God Knowledge Simple People See He

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Love Peace Someone Problem Sixties

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

Book Think Evening Church Important

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'

Great People Saying Want Director

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

King Bible Language Better Years He

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

Character Bond Kind May British He

I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'

Life Myself Me Think Chill My Life

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

Community California United Like

When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.

Funny Great Thought Neighbor Office

I think that by playing centre midfield in the middle of the park, I'm doing something which comes naturally to me.

Me Think Doing Park Playing Middle

Honestly, at the end of the day, what I want women to know is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. And that it should not define who you are.

Beauty Women Day End Of The Day End

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