Donald Kagan Quotes
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done herIs righted even when men grant they err.
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There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
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Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
