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Margaret MacMillan Quotes

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

Margaret MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 23, 1943

Topics

Black And White History Black White

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

Music People Care Three Over Years

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Loneliness Expression Online

When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Love Great Time Cool Friends Down

I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

Acting Circumstances Hard Spontaneous

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Culture Think Speech Manifestation

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

Baseball Flowers Kid Ground Who Had

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Stephen Hawking

Time People Details Physics Master

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Soledad O'Brien

Good Great People Story Black White

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

Robbie Robertson

Love Music People Think Thinking

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

Life Back Chapter Band Dinosaur Our

I think there's a bargain in every garage sale - not as much as there used to be, but they're still there.

Think Used Bargain Still Garage

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

Good Value Think Things Denver

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