Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.

Margaret MacMillan

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I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.

Joe Mansueto

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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

John Oates

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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

John L. Phillips

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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

Jeff Greenfield

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After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

Sterling Marlin

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You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.

Tony La Russa

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I probably get in, like, five meals a day; every now and then, I get six.

Ronnie Coleman

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I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

Mary Ellen Mark

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A 401(k) is essentially a basket of mutual funds intended to help people save for retirement.

Mary Pilon

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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Louis Farrakhan

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I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

Lisa Marie Presley

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