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Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Joseph J. Ellis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1943

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Wife Me Better Person Present Better

I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.

Joe Scarborough

Daughter School War Fun New York Go

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.

Live Ride Short Feel You Look

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

Time Growing Up Writing Reading Hard

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff Vandermeer

Beauty Service Believe Unexpected

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

Think Fairy Honest To Be Honest Kids

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Women Think Point Up Must I Think

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

Struggle Story Difficult Medal Every

Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context. So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.

Music Thoughts Lose Emotions Want

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Football Red Game Reach Trying Own

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Colin Greenwood

Focus People Idiot Need Bigger Bush

If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

Religion Bible America Why Question

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Work Men True Pleasure Artists Only

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