Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Never
  • Camera

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Art
  • Process
  • Potential

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Scary
  • Honest
  • Really

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • City
  • Thought

• I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Myself
  • Medicine
  • Belong

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Book
  • Wishes

• Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • May
  • Present

• I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Life

• I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

  

  Kevin Sorbo
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Suffering

• I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • War
  • Soul
  • Understanding