Amanda Foreman Quotes
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.
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Sometimes in politics and even in life you need to take the tough and difficult decisions which you know would be good for you and the country in the medium and long term
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.
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A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.
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The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
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New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
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I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
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There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
