Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
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In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
