Candice Millard Quotes
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say, 'Oh, I don't like this thing,' but you don't want to get up and leave? At a sketch show, it's always something new every few minutes.
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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
