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Been Quotes by Simon Schama
- From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate…
- From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had…
- Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a…
- Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,…
- In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through. So stop judging me, and… — Nishan Panwar
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom