Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
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We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
