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Timothy Noah Quotes

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Timothy Noah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1958

Topics

Constitution American Without Rule

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

Joe Garcia

Work Back Congress Go Want Florida

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Mathematics Spring Through Until

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

May Sarton

Life Best Fashion Try Crystal Out

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

Happiness Freedom Cut Off Five Your

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Andy Goldsworthy

Work Myself Me Photography Sometimes

I believe that God is very real.

John Shelby Spong

God Believe I Believe Real Very

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

History Fools Events Soldiers False

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

Shura

Confidence Say Out Come Able Grew

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

Rithy Panh

Hell You Master Bring Watch Film

Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

Michael Zaslow

Me Snake Sorry Deep End Mad

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Julia Child

Good Home Food Best Cooking World

I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

Jason Kander

Myself Service Best Politics I Am