Margaret MacMillan Quotes

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?

Margaret MacMillan

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Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Jim Costa

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Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.

Andrew Shaffer

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Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

Andre Ward

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I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

Michael Gough

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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Johnny Cash

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It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

John Ridley

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I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

Rob Van Dam

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The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

Rob Walton

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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

Martin Seligman

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Of course, I can't wait until I get the medal and I can walk around the house and say, 'Daddy, I got you.'

Michelle Carter

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It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.

Mirai Nagasu

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What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Luc Montagnier

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