James A. Michener Quotes

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

James A. Michener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997

Topics

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I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.

Joe Scarborough

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It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleWorldYouPlacePermanent

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

Amanda Peet

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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

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I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.

Stephen Fincher

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My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

Standing Bear

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I'm one of the most humble people you'll probably ever meet.

Ski Mask the Slump God

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Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

Simon Mainwaring

BusinessTreatNeedPlanetDesperate

Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of professional training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The Internet changed everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case.

Michelle Dean

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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Porter

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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Josiah Warren

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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Derek Bailey

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