David McCullough Quotes
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
Quotes to Explore
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
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But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
