Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Ed Smith
- Up
- Think
- Growing
Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Mal Peet
- Media
- Destroy
- Heroes
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Manuel Puig
- Movie
- Story
- Problems
If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

D. A. Pennebaker
- High
- Want
- Problems
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

Sadie Frost
- Time
- Energy
- Boy