David McCullough Quotes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
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I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
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Popular things have fans. It's not about me; it's about what we've made that people feel a connection to.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
