Simon Schama Quotes - Page 2

• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

  Simon Schama

  Illumination, History, Narrators

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of redemption. In fact they glorified in the slightness of their numbers, the self-purifying troop of Gideon's army... stormtroopers in the front line of the Reformation.

  Simon Schama

  Fiesta, Ejército, Hombres

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• Desde los tiempos de los Padres Fundadores hasta estas elecciones (2008), cómo y dónde lucha Estados Unidos para defender su libertad ha sido la cuestión fundamental de su política. La que desencadena la rabia y el dolor; la que pregunta si el precio de la sangre es demasiado caro. O, si quiere mantenerse fiel a sus convicciones, ¿no tiene más remedio que arriesgar la vida?

  Simon Schama

  Father, War, Fighting

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• In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

  Simon Schama

  Congratulations, Exercise, Self

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• Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

  Simon Schama

  Cameras, Problem, Moors

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• Parece que estamos predispuestos a llorar con la vegetación. Permitir que los muertos se disuelvan en la tierra, que formen parte del ciclo de las estaciones, ha sido durante milenios la promesa de engañar a la mortalidad.

  Simon Schama

  Cheating, Grieving, Promise

  Simon Schama (2004). “Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)”, BBC Books

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• DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

  Simon Schama

  Diy, Study, Lifetime

  "Simon Schama: 'I'm the inevitable old codger on the dancefloor'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• Colaborar en la minimización de la historia británica por su supuesta irrelevancia para nuestro renovado futuro nacional, o por la sospecha de que no hace más que reciclar pietismos patrióticos inadecuados para un mercado global, sería un acto de espantosa pérdida de memoria colectiva autoinfligida.

  Simon Schama

  Memories, Patriotic, Loss

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

  Simon Schama

  History, British History, Incapable

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• 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.

  Simon Schama

  School, Records, Ugly

  "Lunch with Mariella: Simon Schama". Interview with Mariella Frostrupv, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

  Simon Schama

  War, Years, Firsts

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