Erik Larson Quotes

At some point, I stumbled across my two main protagonists: William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered professor of history picked by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd's comely and rather wild daughter, Martha, who at first was enthralled with the so-called Nazi revolution.

Erik Larson

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1954

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I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

ForgetDrink

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

John Dickerson

WorkTrainingYouInformationHouse

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Jeff Sessions

ColorAmericanSomeoneSkinCitizen

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

Tracy K. Smith

ChildrenSmallKindCaliforniaUp

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

Rosamund Pike

LifeThinkYouNowNeverOkay

I'm very weird with my money.

Logic

MoneyWeirdVery

I know Bea Arthur left the Pam Anderson roast really early, but it could have been because she was half dead; I don't know.

Lisa Lampanelli

EarlyKnowDeadSheHalfLeft

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

David Thewlis

ThinkFeelingWayMoreExpertBig

I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much.

David Thewlis

TrustMistakeThinkToo MuchKnow

Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.

Brandon Webb

TimePurposeMeetingsConversations

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

Synyster Gates

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If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

Sun Yat-sen

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