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.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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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.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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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.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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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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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.
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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.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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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.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
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History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
