John H. Plumb Quotes

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Necessary

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Interested
  • Russia

• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Helps

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Like

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• In order to win in this league, you have to have a quarterback who can make all the throws, who makes great decisions, somebody who can get you out of bad situations, that just gives you a chance.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Great
  • Bad

• The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Man
  • Woman

• If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

  

  John Madden
  • Work
  • Guy

• Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

  

  Arthur Levitt
  • Purpose

• History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

  

  John H. Plumb
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