Barbara Tuchman Quotes
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.Barbara Tuchman
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
Dan Hill -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama -
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
Olivia Williams
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Babasaheb -
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward -
Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
Dale Evans
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
Fiona Gubelmann -
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
Carlos Slim -
I eat next to nothing.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Larry Niven -
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
Vince McMahon -
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.
Leanne Caret -
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
Thomas A. Edison -
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
Paulo Coelho -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua -
So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
David Strathairn -
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman