Washington Irving Quotes
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
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My daily routine varies, but there are certain things I try to stick to, like journaling in the morning and establishing my mood before I check any social media or take any calls or e-mails. That helps get me started on the right foot.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
