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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
— Simon Schama
There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
— Simon Schama
I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
— Simon Schama
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
— Simon Schama
It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.
— Simon Schama
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.
— Devendra Banhart
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
— Simon Schama
Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What
— Simon Schama
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
— John Morley
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
— Simon Schama
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
— Richard Widmark
I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.
— Simon Schama
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
— Simon Schama
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
— Simon Schama
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
— Simon Schama
An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A
— Simon Schama
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
— Simon Schama
The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
— David Horowitz
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
— Simon Schama
I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.
— Simon Schama
See, the good Lord loves everybody. He don't care what color your hair is or where you put your jewelry.
— Randolph Randy Camp
My condolences, you're still alive.
— Fakeer Ishavardas