Francis Parkman Quotes
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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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.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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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.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I play Xbox in my underwear.
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I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
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Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
