Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.Barbara W. Tuchman
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
Barbara Demick -
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.
Victoria Wood -
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
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.
Dallas Roberts
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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.
Gail Simmons -
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale -
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper -
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.'
Ira Sachs -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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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.
Sally Mann -
In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
Ferdinand Marcos -
After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
Dan Hawkins -
My profession has helped me to grow up.
Ziyi Zhang -
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Lady Gaga -
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
Park Chan-wook
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Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.
Mark Fuhrman -
Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.
Kristen Soltis Anderson -
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar Wilde -
People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
Foster Friess -
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major -
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
Barbara W. Tuchman