David Herbert Donald Quotes

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

David Herbert Donald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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'Top of the Pops' is fun. It's escapism. It's a laugh. It's a rhythm; it gets your foot tapping. And that's all it is.

Jimmy Savile

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When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

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In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.

John Dickerson

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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

John Lasseter

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I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

Jeff Bridges

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There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.

Robin Sloan

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My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Rodney Crowell

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I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Roy Cohn

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When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.

Mary of Teck

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There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

Miranda Otto

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My friends and family all know me, and that's the important thing.

Jon Jones

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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

Peter Mayhew

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