"At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy,……" — Simon Schama
"At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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More Clumsy Quotes
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated…
— Sun Tzu
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
— Peter Weiss
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
— Karl Kraus
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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