Greg Grandin Quotes

Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, including Haiti's racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white supremacy, militarism, and Christian evangelism.

Greg Grandin

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It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Joel Osteen

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

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If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Maya Angelou

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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Ann Beattie

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I want to just do my job and do it well.

Mia Wasikowska

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck

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I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

Summer Glau

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I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

Rob Lowe

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I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Russell Banks

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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Mike Wallace

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If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

Louise Nurding

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After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

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