Amanda Foreman Quotes
As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.
Quotes to Explore
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.
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The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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A penny saved is two pence clear.
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Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.
