Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.Nathaniel Philbrick
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
Iggy Azalea -
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
Dana Perino -
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen -
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
Candice Swanepoel -
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
Valeria Golino -
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson -
Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
Dan Rather -
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe -
I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
Pat Robertson -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian Mckellen
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo -
It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
Barack Obama -
I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?
Alexei Navalny -
The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.
Edward Zwick -
If you're gonna live, then live it up.
Ben Harper -
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
Nathaniel Philbrick