8d. de opkomst van emancipatiebewegingen

4b. de opkomst van stedelijke burgerij en de toenemende zelfstandigheid van steden

4c. het begin van staatsvorming en centralisatie

5b. het burgerlijk bestuur en de stedelijke cultuur in Nederland

5c. de Opstand en het ontstaan van een onafhankelijke Nederlandse staat

6a. het streven van vorsten naar absolute macht

6b. de bijzondere plaats en de bloed van de Nederlandse Republiek

7a. rationeel optimisme en toepassing van verlicht denken

7a. het streven naar grondrechten en naar politieke invloed van de burgerij in de Franse en Bataafse revolutie

7b. ancien regime en verlicht absolutisme

7d. de democratische revoluties

8a. de industriële revolutie

8b. discussies over de sociale kwestie

8e. voortschrijdende democratisering

8f. de opkomst van politiek-maatschappelijke stromingen

9b. de totalitaire ideologieën communisme, fascisme en nationaalsocialisme

9c. de crisis van het wereldkapitalisme

9d. het voeren van 2 wereldoorlogen

9f. de Duitse bezetting van Nederland

9g. verwoestingen door massavernietigingswapens en de betrokkenheid van burgers in de oorlog

10a. de verdeling van de wereld in twee ideologische blokken en de wapenwedloop

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

I've been fortunate when in government to have a car at my disposal, which takes away the nightmare of getting a taxi.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I don't give a crap about clowns.

I think it's important Republicans be in the majority so, like my Democratic counterparts, I give to the party.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Passion is different from interest. Those who are just interested in things have the “wish”, but passionate people have the “will”.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Breakfast alone by gaslight is about as ghastly as champagne in daylight.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.