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James Henry Breasted Quotes

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1865 - December 2, 1935

Topics

Progress Important Never Without Any

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

Me You Nobody Know Want Mean

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

Work Work Hard You Never Hard Kids

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

Focus Job Ideas You Bad Quit

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Challenges Interesting Magic Software

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

John Shelton Reed

Believe Say Poor Own Things Still

Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.

Service Parents Me Action Values

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Spiritual Trying Now More Stuff

When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I'd never had pizza before, and they'd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It's really fun.

School Fun Pizza Me Kitchen Student

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Young Big Fan Dustin Hoffman

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

World Said Need Things Enrich

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

Life Success Happiness Children

Women friends get me through the bumps in the road.

Women Me Road Friends Through Get

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