Linda Colley Quotes

The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.

Linda Colley

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Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

Joel Kinnaman

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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Andre Maurois

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President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

John Olver

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My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.

Robert Lopez

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Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Sophie Hannah

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Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Simon Mainwaring

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Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Shimon Peres

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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

Tony Curtis

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There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

Roxane Gay

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I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Mila Kunis

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Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

Miguel Sapochnik

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Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

Lorde

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