Charles Francis Adams Jr. Quotes
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
Quotes to Explore
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
Ma Huateng
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
Laura Linney
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Irvin D. Yalom
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
Lance Henriksen
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
Indra Nooyi
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
Gary Locke
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis
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As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.
Wallace Stevens
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
Ben Carson
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
Louis Sullivan
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I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.
Colbie Caillat
