Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
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Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
