Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

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• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

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• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  

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• I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

  

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• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

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• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

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• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

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• I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

  

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• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

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• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

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• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

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• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

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• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

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• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

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• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

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• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

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• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

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• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

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• My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees... Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.

  

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• We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy