Margaret MacMillan Quotes

If you read about millions of people doing this and millions of people doing that, history seems remote and inaccessible.

Margaret MacMillan

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HistoryPeopleDoingYouSeemsRead

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

LifeLearnYouKnowWonderfulThem

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Robert Moog

GoodMusicTogetherRememberEasy

When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

Matthew Pearl

PeopleHotelHouseDownBostonHim

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

Matthew Rhys

PeopleThinkFeelYouFindUp

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

Anna Louise Strong

HopeTimePeopleOrganizationPlace

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

John Ridley

CollegeBlackAmericaConversation

I continually took jobs I really wasn't really qualified for.

Amy Hood

JobsTookReallyQualified

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

Monica Johnson

ForgivenessGodNameMercyThrough

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

Luis Fonsi

PeaceAmazingThinkSayPresident

My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black characters, and black people, targeted specifically at a white, male-dominated retailer base.

Christopher Priest

PeopleBlackWhiteRunMythsReally

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Anthony Ray Hinton

HellYearsPureLived

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

William Safire

TiredFeelMeaningKnowSometimes

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