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Peter Gay Quotes

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1923

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Modernism Develop Definition Took

Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.

Back Career Will Way Study Over

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Michael A. Stackpole

Happiness Time Old Friends Magic You

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

Women Men Me Think Feel Play

We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.

Strong America Thoughtful Security

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Value Dignity Desire Must Our Means

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Me Silly Serious Opera Soap Easier

As the civil rights struggle progressed, Americans responded to the justice of the cause, shedding layers of the crusty armor that shielded the white majority from contact with its large black minority. There are layers left. It feels so much better to be on good terms with one another.

Good Justice Struggle Black Better

The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Home People Safety Law American

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Christopher Hitchens

Character Great Moral High

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Action Innocence Choose Choice Need

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

Winter Time Child People Growing Up

The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.

Live Walls People You Routine Know

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