David Herbert Donald Quotes

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

David Herbert Donald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1920 - May 17, 2009

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Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

Jemima Kirke

ArtExperienceFeelActingWantTop

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

Andrea Bocelli

SearchArtistFeelingEvolutionOwn

Climbing is what I do.

Anatoli Boukreev

Climbing

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

John Lewis

HomeFeelYouWrongRightSomething

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

Simon Schama

MeSpeakSomeoneGoSayWill

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

Sholom Aleichem

FatherBlessingPrayerWorldEvening

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

Tommy Franks

TimeMomentPeopleThinkLoseHard

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

Roxane Gay

WorkGoodRespectJobBe StrongMe

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

PoliticsPeopleDieBecauseFact

Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well.

Michelle Yeoh

ThinkLearnYouUpArtsSomething

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Julia Holter

MusicMeKnowImportantSeriously

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

David Sedaris

FeelMouthRulesNewSometimesJust

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