Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.
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All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time tomorrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
