Francis Parkman Quotes
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
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I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
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If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.
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Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.
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If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
