Donald Kagan Quotes
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.
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I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
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Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend.
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
