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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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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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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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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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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It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
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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 completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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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.
