Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

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'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.

Simon Toyne

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While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

Matt Bevin

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'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

Michael Mayer

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It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

Mira Sorvino

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I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

Mo Farah

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You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

Bryan Fogel

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Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Anthony Hopkins

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The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

Prince Andrew

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It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.

Sherilyn Fenn

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I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.

Seth Shostak

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What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.

Scott Pruitt

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