Margaret MacMillan Quotes

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

Margaret MacMillan

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WarStartThinkingYouInevitable

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Jimmy Wales

ThinkRealityI ThinkExists

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

John Bolton

FreedomBelieveConservativeWell

I wrote 'Lakeside View Apartment Suites' with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him crying in the next room.

John Darnielle

ViewYouOldOverMonthRoom

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

LoveGoodBusinessPowerQuality

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.

Andie MacDowell

PeopleColorsHairWayTalkGray

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

John Oliver

PeopleStupidYouSayAlwaysJokes

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Robert Scheer

DecisionThinkAccountantKnowOver

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.

John Roberts

JusticeGovernmentPeopleLawKnow

A lot of the things I get sent are the girlfriend or the wife or the assistant, and those are not that exciting to me.

Shiri Appleby

WifeMeGirlfriendThingsGetThose

Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I was, the moon would shine on both of us. Months later, walking in London, I'd look at the moon and feel his love. Now I've shared the ritual with my own kids.

Roma Downey

LoveFatherHomeSchoolMoonShine

I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

Mary J. Blige

LifeHappyBe HappyThinkMy Life

Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

Michael Specter

ClimbWorldLoseSizeAverageAlong

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