Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
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The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
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In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.
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The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
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I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
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President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.
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It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.
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The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.
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The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
