Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• I haven't changed. I'm still the same boy, and I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Boy

• I was like: 'Oh my God, please look at her bum, is she like that in real life?' I was at one of the live shows and saw it for myself. She is beautiful!

  

  Rochelle Humes

• I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Parents

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

  

  Bryn Terfel
  • Good
  • Calm

• A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Trust