Adam Hochschild Quotes

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

Adam Hochschild

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 5, 1942

Topics

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I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

Jenny Lewis

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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

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It's not always easy to be proud of your government.

John Lithgow

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People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Stella McCartney

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I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

Sissy Spacek

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I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Tom Hanks

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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Rosanne Cash

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I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Rupert Sanders

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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

Michel Foucault

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I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

Lou Barlow

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In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Loretta Lynch

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A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless - it can be passed on to future generations.

Liu Wen

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