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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• 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 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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• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

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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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• It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

  

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• More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

  

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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?

  

  Donald Kagan
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