Samuel E. Morison Quotes
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
