James Henry Breasted Quotes

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

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• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

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• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

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• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

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• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

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• There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

  

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• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

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• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

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• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

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• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

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• I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

  

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• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

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• Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

  

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• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

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• Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.

  

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• I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

  

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• As he ages and sees more of the world, he’s realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.

  

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• Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

  

  James Henry Breasted
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