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H. W. Brands Quotes

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.

H. W. Brands

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1953

Topics

Today Past Differences Know Matter

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

John Roos

Together People Difficult Diplomacy

My name is actually Mia Gypsy - my mum said she named me that because of everywhere I'm from. She felt that I'd always be roaming from place to place, and I've always felt like that.

Mia Goth

Me Name Place Said She Always

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that's the great thing about fashion. In a way, it's like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.

Sophie Turner

Great Day Fashion Wish Look Acting

Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

Tom Ford

People America You Outfit Know Want

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

RuPaul

People World Understand Two Buy Who

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

Michael Winter

Rest Silly You Look See Being

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Stupidity Human Two Things Us

I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.

Jason Mantzoukas

Audience Like Them Poking

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Women Balance Society Help Important

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

Day Government Thought Phone Never

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.

Peter Paige

Life Experience I Am Gay Profound

Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Scilla Elworthy

Woman Man You Body Gravity Become