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Donald Kagan Quotes

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1932

Topics

History Time Myself Me Reading Boy

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Success People You Wonder Person

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Questions Easy You Answer Bothering

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Passion Creative Energy Enough Like

I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

Life Family Love Happiness People

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Roads City Landscape Buildings Table

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

Age Children Parents Think Die You

My husband is half Japanese and half white European-American, and our son is half Korean, quarter Japanese, and a quarter white European-American.

Son Husband White Half Quarter Our

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

Step People Writing Touch Everything

I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.

Friend Fun House Yesterday Personal

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

Time Job Singing Thought Old Radio

A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.

Morning Alone Together Amazing Will

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

Camera Editing Like Doubles Trickery

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