Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
Adam Lambert
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons
People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-Pain
The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
Ira Glass
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
Samuel Barnett
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
A. R. Rahman
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
Vladimir Putin
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
Barack Obama
Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
Dinaw Mengestu
I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
Sigmund Freud
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick