Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Software

• The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Emotion

• I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Face
  • Foundation
  • Flaws

• Literature has become too psychological.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Literature
  • Become
  • Too

• Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Up
  • Children
  • You

• 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can't let it go. Whether it's a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Better
  • Shoes
  • Feet

• When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Film
  • Safe

• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Sin

• If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • You
  • Writer
  • Anything

• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Blue

• The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Friends
  • Faith
  • Friday

• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie

• She gets too hungry for dinner at eight...She likes a crap game, but never come late...She'd never bother with people she hates...That's why the lady is a tramp.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Real
  • Done
  • May

• So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People

• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Faith
  • Failure
  • Virtues

• I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • Care
  • Living
  • Neighborhood

• We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Understand
  • Democratic
  • Communities

• Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time

• I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin