Francis Parkman Quotes
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
Francis Parkman
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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.
Karin Slaughter
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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.
P. J. Harvey
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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.'
Paige VanZant
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
Yousuf Karsh
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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.
Galen Rowell
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
Carles Puigdemont
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Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid
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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.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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.
Jack Gleeson
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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.
T. E. Hulme
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As a vulgar lounge entertainer, my business relies on ridiculous stereotypes! If these people start using deodorant, I might as well just go home!
Craig Ferguson
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Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
Bridgette Wilson
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For me, personally, I'm a simple guy.
Eric Weddle
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There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.
Ivan Turgenev
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
Mandy Patinkin
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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
Francis Parkman