David Hackett Fischer Quotes

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

David Hackett Fischer

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• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
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  • Management

• I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Golf
  • Calm
  • Better Person

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
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• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  

  Adam Carolla
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• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Always
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• There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Different
  • Feel

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Luck

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
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• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
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• The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Grace
  • Charity

• The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Past

• I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

  

  Jason Ralph

• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Islam

• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

  

  Bill Shankly
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death

• The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Important
  • American
  • Idea