Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Poverty
  • U.S.
  • Unemployment

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Rest

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• I was always amazed when people were kind to us.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • People

• You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

  

  Maxwell Caulfield
  • Work
  • Money
  • Road

• I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

  

  Betty White
  • Business
  • Ego

• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• If the ongoing probe ends, I will take appropriate measures on anybody, including myself, who are found to be accountable for.

  

  Jay Y. Lee

• In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Why
  • Technology

• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Personality

• I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

  

  Craig Kilborn

• I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • People
  • Action
  • Bold

• My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Father
  • Purpose
  • Famous

• I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Book
  • Together
  • Happy

• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

  

  Lionel Hampton
  • Thinking

• I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Up
  • Science
  • Technology

• ‘Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Missing

• The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Today

• It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

  

  Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Missing
  • Spot
  • Hypocrisies