William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891

Topics

PoliticsRunWillServeElected

Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

John Gourley

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Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

John Cho

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The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

Melanne Verveer

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I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Michael Cunningham

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Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

John Polanyi

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I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

Mary Lambert

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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

Deborah Harkness

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My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

Todd Rundgren

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I'm not the same man I used to be, I'm not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Mr. T

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All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

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