Amanda Foreman Quotes
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead.
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The World is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.
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With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
