Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it the rules of perspective now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
