Edward Gibbon Quotes

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

Topics

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When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

Joe Manganiello

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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Jill McCorkle

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I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

Amy Childs

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I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

Steve Mnuchin

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I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

Robert Wilson

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Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Michael Patrick Jann

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'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

Dominic Cooper

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I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

Christina Aguilera

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You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Colin Powell

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You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.

Colin Kaepernick

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The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Arthur Henderson

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