Michael Beschloss Quotes

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Michael Beschloss

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• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

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• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

  

  Fat Joe
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• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

  

  LaToya London
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  • Camera
  • Quiet

• Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Loss

• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Real
  • Society
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• I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Black
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• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Great
  • Real
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• Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Me

• You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Great
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• The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
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• It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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  • Reality
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• Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

  

  Don Meredith

• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Father
  • Weird
  • Motivated

• In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Food
  • Brain

• There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.

  

  Adrian Chiles
  • Going
  • Shirt
  • Swapping

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

  

  Kenneth Chenault
  • Job
  • Reality
  • Simple

• First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Political
  • Constitution
  • Conventions