Margaret MacMillan Quotes

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

Margaret MacMillan

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PastYouWantAlwaysWhateverOut

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

Jessica Chastain

TalkingWayHardAlwaysUsedRole

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GoodHeartManWorldPunishmentHim

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

Robert J. Bentley

GovernmentPeopleThinkFairDepend

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

Tommy Chong

MusicLookingYouBoyMatterGuy

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

Ronald Coase

BusinessEconomicsManagementStill

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Mary McLeod Bethune

MeWorldWholeReadLearnedOpened

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

Mo Rocca

FunnyPeopleThinkYouImportant

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Luke Ford

LifeDayFollowStudyOverHours

There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

Don Kardong

EndDoingYouMarathonMoreAlways

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

David Walton

LifeExperienceTalentSayBeen

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

Shemar Moore

FamilyPathWordsBaseballCollege

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.

Seamus Heaney

TimeWordsYourselfEyeReadingYou

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