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

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• 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

• I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Life
  • World

• 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

• I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Happy
  • Culture

• 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

• In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Life
  • Real

• My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In my personal life, it's Evan Naess. In my career life, it's Evan Ross.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Legacy
  • My Mother
  • My Father

• Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.

  

  Katori Hall
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Time
  • School
  • Missing

• Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Missing
  • Spend Time

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

  

  Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Missing
  • Spot
  • Hypocrisies