E. P. Thompson Quotes

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

E. P. Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 3, 1924 - August 28, 1993

Topics

PoliticalYouKnowOutOnlyBoth

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

Melvin Van Peebles

ChangeYouGoWantLittleBig

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

Matthew Ramsey

RespectGreatEndMusiciansSinger

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Michael Gambon

MyselfMeBeardPlayHimRole

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

Alyson Stoner

IndiaSoundGotSortMeets

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

Steven Levitt

WorkGoodSocial MediaMediaSay

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

Josh Malerman

CollegeMeDietBackTrainLeaving

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

William Shatner

FoolYourselfYou Can Do ItYouDown

Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit - probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery - but let me assure you, if you're one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but.

Suzy Shuster

MeColleaguesYouLookSeriously

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

Thomas Piketty

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I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Rihanna

LoveDressPeopleReadingEnjoyWay

An open, market-oriented, and peaceful Iraq could also advance reform and growth across the entire region.

Richard N. Haass

GrowthPeacefulOpenReformAdvance

I'm still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things.

Nicole Holofcener

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