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'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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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 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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My fried chicken is very simple. I pan-fry it in a skillet.
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It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.
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At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.
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'Take me home,' Snow White said. 'Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.'
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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.
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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.
