Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Don't limit your audience.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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The final verdict will not be in the obituaries. The final verdict will be when the PhD students dig out the archives, read my old papers, assess what my enemies have said, sift the evidence and seek the truth. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose
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The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
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The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
