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Amanda Foreman Quotes

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

World Fighting Long Years Empire

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

Yourself Think You Know Yourself Get

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

Rich Bad Bad Times Get Times Richer

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

Life People Me Being Different Think

South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

Innovation People Connections Kind

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Jonathan Franzen

Man Child Parents People Me Think

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

Girl Singing Career Abandoned Due

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

Age Free Saying You Down Say

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

William Shatner

Ideas World Think Information Know

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Great Environmental Gold Long Lose

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

Live Year Hawaii Look Down Why

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

Looking Doing Want Kind Way Act

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