David McCullough Quotes
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
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If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
