Robert Fogel Quotes

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

Robert Fogel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 1, 1926 - June 11, 2013

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Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Jenny Han

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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

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I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

Andrew Buchan

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Serious crime is very, very rare, and I think all of us are interested because they are rare and unusual. If they were banal and everyday, we wouldn't be interested in them at all.

Robert Rinder

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I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

John Irving

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My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

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I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Mitch Hedberg

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You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

Jason T. Smith

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I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

Jay Ryan

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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

Peter Falk

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I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

Martha Stewart

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Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

James Hansen

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