Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.

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• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Older

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Universe

• Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • Sophisticated

• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Happy

• Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Relationship
  • Always
  • Priority

• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Change
  • Did

• Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Feel
  • Face
  • Radio

• I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Part 1, Ch. 2

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

• But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Why
  • Justice

• Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I look back on them all the time and constantly feel like I owe it to the other projects that I've made that have gotten me to where I am.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Bad

• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Community
  • Individual
  • Would

• I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.

  

  Nyle DiMarco
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Deaf

• Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.

  

  Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Community
  • Values
  • Laws