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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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
