Francis Parkman Quotes
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Francis Parkman
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
Vanessa Marcil
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
Aaron Sanchez
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
Zach Woods
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
Adam McKay
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I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
Jez Butterworth
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In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.
Barack Obama
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I'm really into gardening.
Brea Grant
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Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.
Marco Brambilla
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
David McCullough
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Francis Parkman
