"I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop."

-- Antony Beevor

#Believe Quotes #Historical Quotes

“A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.”
“For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
“The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.”

Source : "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.
“Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.”
“I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.”

Source : Source: latinalista.com
“One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.”

Source : William Baziotes (1978). “William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition”
“I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.”
“To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.”

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