David McCullough Quotes
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
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We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
