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Amanda Foreman Quotes

Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.

Amanda Foreman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

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Passion Politics You Duty Side Your

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca

Wisdom Power Fight War Democracy

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

John Bright

Great Small Measure Honest Part

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

Michael East

Easy Race Stepping Up Gear Thing

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

Stephan El Shaarawy

Roots Feel More Anything I Feel

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

Rob Woodall

Support Congress Pay Pieces Bills

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

Robert Torricelli

Democrats Where Like Massachusetts

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

Russell Banks

Women Men White Run First Educated

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

Mike Posner

Know Same Over Years Twice Stuff

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Martin Parr

Music Death I Am Play Follower Up

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

Mona Simpson

Mother Time King Horse Long She

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

Judy Smith

Good Growth Time Best People Up

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Josef Albers

Man Ethics You Colour Behave May