Charles C. Mann Quotes

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

Charles C. Mann

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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

John Henrik Clarke

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World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Robert Kiyosaki

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We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Max Cannon

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So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.

Matthew Heineman

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Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

Ron Ben-Israel

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I'm always going forward, and there's no limits.

Luke James

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'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

Jason Reitman

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Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'

Brett Dalton

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You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

Bradley Walsh

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Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Bruce Feiler

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I was the laziest person around. Suddenly, one day, I decided to become an actor. Thank God for that whimsical decision: else, by now, I'd have been a 140-kilo, butter-chicken-bingeing hotelier.

Prabhas

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Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Sevyn Streeter

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