Margaret MacMillan Quotes

The only person, if you're a religious person, who's always right is God. And if you make the mistake of thinking that you, like God, are always right, and that you, like God, always know everything, then it seems to me you're riding for a fall.

Margaret MacMillan

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The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

Jessica Williams

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Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

John C. Mather

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I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

Amber Riley

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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Steve Israel

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I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

Stan Van Gundy

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I've been misunderstood when it comes to women. I've got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there's something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.

Travis Fimmel

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Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Roy Orbison

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Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Jay Carney

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I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Jose Saramago

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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Don Rickles

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I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

Johnny Flynn

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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland

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