Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making.
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Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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I never have celebrity crushes.
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I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
