Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
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In the dark, I like to read his mind But I'm frightened of the things I might find.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
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I'm really close to all of my family.
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In friendship false, implacable in hate,Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
