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Robert Toombs Quotes

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885

Topics

War Texas New California Mexico

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

Family Good Story Think Someone You

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Life Great Death Mistake Fall Kings

I don't like the word 'satisfaction' - never have. I don't think I'll be satisfied with anything, really, to be honest.

Think Satisfaction Never Anything

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

Good Teach Two Florida Things Deal

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

People Performance You Matter Where

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

Jordan Peterson

Women Organization Think You Look

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Inspirational Good Together World

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Great Yourself People Story You Try

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

Austan Goolsbee

People Pool Skill Know Up Going

I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.

Love Time Hate Me Action Think

It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

Sleep You Lying Waste Just

I can't imagine living and not running.

Paula Radcliffe

Living Imagine Running

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