Rick Perlstein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.
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I am stable when my private life is a success.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
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If God created a football team, Pastor Hawkins would be the quarterback. When he was on God?s field, he always ran the play the coach told him to. Northwest Arkansas lost a difference-maker when Pastor Hawkins went home. I lost a good friend.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.
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I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
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For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
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I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
