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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And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
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In my head, I believed even though I am an actor, there was no need to dance. That's not me.
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
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And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
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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.
