Margaret MacMillan Quotes

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others will, and they will not necessarily do it well.

Margaret MacMillan

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HistoryGreatPastSmallWillWrite

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Joe Strummer

WisdomAgePowerControlYouEarly

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

John Casey

LifeCharacterWordsPreparation

When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly.

John Lithgow

ExperienceMeRememberUncleGoOld

When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.

Matthew Lewis

GreatHeroManActionBondYou

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

Anish Kapoor

LifeWorkHistoryStoryMy Life

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

Michael Gerber

WorkBusinessBehaviorYouKindWho

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

Ruth Reichl

CookingYourselfShoppingWeekYou

My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.

Matt Bomer

HeartCreativityIntelligencePeople

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.

Martin Rees

LifeHistoryEffortNameGeneration

I'm always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I really don't want to end up like that cliche celebrity teenager kid who is a bad example.

Lucky Blue Smith

GoodPeopleCoolEndTryingBad

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

Logic

WomanYouKnowListenSheWants

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

Colm Toibin

BookNationalismViolenceNeverOpen

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