David McCullough Quotes

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

David McCullough

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifePeopleCollegeBackGoNow

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

Jerry Yang

MeCrazySmallFeetLongArtist

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

Jeff Lindsay

TogetherPeopleEnjoyChoiceBoy

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

Amy Heckerling

HomeNew YorkMeNewWhereBecause

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

Sophia Amoruso

BusinessDebtProfitableBuiltHuge

I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.

Tracie Peterson

HeartWordsPeoplePowerfulDesire

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

Mike Jackson

FreeMilitarySeeTidyOperations

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Mike McCready

FocusDesignYouPicturesFocused

We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.

Michael McCaul

StrategyDefeatMilitaryNeedGround

Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.

Milana Vayntrub

MusicExperienceComedyTransition

If you do not score, it is difficult to win.

Julen Lopetegui

WinYouDifficultScore

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Joyce Meyer

DayEffortWorthEvery DayGoUpset

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Dirk Benedict

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