Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.
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N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.
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I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
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Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
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There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
