Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.

Margaret MacMillan

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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Jilly Cooper

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Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they're not there. That to me is very, very interesting. And how our thoughts change the outcome of an experiment, I think that's all quite spiritual.

Jerry Hall

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Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas.

Michael Cimino

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The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

Stephanie Coontz

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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

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Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

Tom Petty

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I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.

Robert Englund

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The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

Riz Ahmed

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I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

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I really like bowling.

Lorelei Linklater

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One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

Dennis Hastert

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