Don Herold Quotes
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
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I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles. I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited to all the smart parties and social gatherings.
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All I ever wanted was a big, happy family.
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
