Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
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I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
