Margaret MacMillan Quotes

The Canadian government has had a field day apologising for past policies towards a series of ethnic groups: Italian, Ukrainian, Sikh, Chinese, Japanese and Jews.

Margaret MacMillan

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It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.

Joe Perry

GreatTogetherTalentPracticeDeep

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

John C. Reilly

WorkBestI AmPeopleFaceGiving

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

Sri Chinmoy

PeaceWarWorldBeingCannotCome

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Toni Braxton

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We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.

Luke Nosek

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I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

Joss Stone

ShoesHairDownI CanMatterTie

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

KnowDifferenceSubstancePreserve

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Colm Meaney

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We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

Chuck Pagano

TomorrowKnowNothingGuaranteed

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

Brian Stelfreeze

ArtWritingDrawingWrongRightGet

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

Apollonius of Tyana

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato

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