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Norman Davies Quotes

Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Sometimes Side Just Choosing

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Work Love Beauty Great Singer Some

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

Think Independent Documentary I Think

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

Music Out Hippie Hangover Midst

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

School Singing High School Band High

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

Mithun Chakraborty

Work People Nostalgia Young Cry Why

I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

Play Always Superhero Being Got

I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Thinking Remember You Want Watching

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Joshua Chamberlain

Fire Men Giving Enemy Wishes Seize

I'm a business person at heart.

Business Heart Person Business Person

Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.

Children Strong Loving Want Way See

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

Anthony Hamilton

Moment Church Heaven Down Boy Swing

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

Politics Back Conservative Watching

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