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Robert K. Massie Quotes

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

Robert K. Massie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1929

Topics

History Me Kind Things Where Sense

People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.

Goals Football People Me I Can Play

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Time Best Job Mom World Road

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

Jean-Luc Godard

Perfect Feeling Place Shoot Film

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Life You Tell Own Idea Resist

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Fashion Nothing Obsolete Hideous

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Keep Profitable How Intend

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Age College Slow Plan First Singer

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Women Citizenship Cross Second-Class

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Service Purpose People Differences

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Looking You Find Know Going Working

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

Life Poetry Speak More Over Point

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Music Today Experience Trying You

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