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Amanda Foreman Quotes

When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

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Good Desire Human Her Mixed Jane

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.

Memory Think Looks May Move Date

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.

Life Marriage Relationship Alone

I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.

Women Grateful I Am Me Crazy Black

I think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Work Mother I Am Appreciation Think

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Fear Focus People Me You Meet

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Work Dream Photographer Big National

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.

Cow Grass Out Planet Things Protein

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

Love God Religion Value Mind You

Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?

Say Who Am I Joke Punk Who Am

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Start Journalism Labor Blood Got

I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.

Condoleezza Rice

Support People Me Saying Someone

Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

Brian Azzarello

Walk Think Reality Finding You Down

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