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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Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
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Orchard of the strangest fruits Hanging from the skies; Brothers, yet insensate brutes Who fear each others’ eyes.
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I never thought I was going to be a comedian.
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Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
