Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes
American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono
Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
Walter Lang
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
Jackee Harry
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
Gary Numan
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Jealousy is a scary thing.
Laura Dern
You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
Bernhard Langer
I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.
Louise Nurding
'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!''You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.'Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?''You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you.''She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.'
Brian Aldiss
I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
Danica Patrick
I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
Kai Bird
American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the.
Annette Gordon-Reed
