Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1886 - June 13, 1953

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My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

Joanne Harris

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I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

Jenny Lewis

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I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

Jens Lekman

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

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When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Tom Perrotta

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I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Ruby Dee

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Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Mary Roach

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Put me there on the pitch if you want to see how much it means to me or how hungry I am to win more medals.

Diego Costa

I AmMeWinYouWantSee

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.

Brie Larson

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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Wim Wenders

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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

William Petersen

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Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.

James P. Gorman

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