Ellsworth Huntington Quotes
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Quotes to Explore
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
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I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
