Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.Nathaniel Philbrick
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton -
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather -
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri -
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
Tahar Rahim -
I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
Sam Graves -
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
Patrick Chappatte
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie -
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot -
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
Campbell Scott -
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
Karl Jaspers
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
Felicity Jones -
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
Wendy Davis -
I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
Yara Shahidi -
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
Kate Winslet -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
Eddie Murphy -
I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
Rachel Keller -
I love football, football is my life.
Wayne Rooney -
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr -
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.
Thomas Kuhn -
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
Nathaniel Philbrick