Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I am very blessed.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
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The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.
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We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.
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I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
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For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
