Amanda Foreman Quotes
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?
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Me showing my emotions... it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of passion.
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Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
