Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes
History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire—a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.Annette Gordon-Reed
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
Kate Bosworth -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
Sam Kinison -
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk -
I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
Gary Bettman
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
Patrick Fugit -
I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
Vijay Singh -
With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
Kat Dahlia -
Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
Sam Smith -
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
Zubin Mehta -
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel -
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
Barton Gellman -
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi -
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Gary Oldman -
Said one among them - 'Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again'.
Omar Khayyam
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Laurence Housman -
Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.
Mary Kay Andrews -
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
John B. S. Haldane -
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire—a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.
Annette Gordon-Reed