Adam Hochschild Quotes

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

Joe Manganiello

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Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

Jhonen Vasquez

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When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

Andrew Sean Greer

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My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

Max Weinberg

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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Maya Angelou

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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Simon Callow

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I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

Moira Kelly

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Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Josh Homme

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Cannibals are devouring senators.

Arlen Specter

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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

William Gilbert

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'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.

Svetlana Alexievich

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