H. W. Brands Quotes
It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.

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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
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People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
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It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.