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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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
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It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
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There were many in the party that did not want me to run.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
