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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Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
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I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.
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Donald Trump insisted he's always had a great relationship with women. He said, 'I believe a woman can be anything she wants to be, whether that's Miss USA or Miss Universe. Either one.'
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
