Amanda Foreman Quotes

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

Amanda Foreman

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MotherDaughterWifeSufferingMoral

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Joe Gebbia

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Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

Jessica Stockholder

PaintingSkinNailsPlumbingPaint

At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.

John Fusco

AgeWorldStoryYoungLittleChina

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Ann Wilson

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I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

Amit Bhatia

AloneTimeMyselfDayEnergyNeed

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

Stella Young

WorkMyselfMeBedWithoutOut

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

Roger Rees

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I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

Rose Namajunas

LiveNiceNothingNeighborhoodHere

I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.

Joseph Monninger

ColorsFishLookUpLocationTake

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton

DietSinglePotatoesBecauseOff

As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan.

Timothy Spall

LifePlanEnjoyYouThoughtfulGo

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly).

Richard Preston

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