Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

Alexandra Bracken

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1987

Topics

LifeHistoryLookingBeyondLucky

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Jenny Lewis

FightingSomeoneYouBandOverFive

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

John Green

MusicGreatFeelYouEmotionsGo

Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?

John Dickerson

LieLittleBigBecauseHeForced

I predict 2016 will be a year of upheaval and realignment across the world. China's economy will continue to sputter. Commodity exporting countries will suffer. Europe's growth will remain flat-lined. The U.S. will plug along at under 3% growth.

John J. McLaughlin

GrowthWorldYearWillPredict

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

Steve Carell

ThinkYouSituationKnowPersonal

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

Steve Erickson

ScienceCultureCreativeWarLong

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Tricia Griffith

TruthPeopleListeningYouStop

The ability for somebody to put their arm out and get a taxi is fundamentally different then having a 10-minute pickup time. It just is.

Travis Kalanick

TimeAbilityOutTaxiGetDifferent

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Tom Drury

WordsPeopleFactsFeelYouKnow

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Robinson Jeffers

LoveFreedomQualityManBeen

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Rowan Atkinson

CriticismViewProblemPoint Of View

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

Mike Mills

ParentsBetterFeelPerfectKids

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