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Francis Parkman Quotes

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

Francis Parkman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893

Topics

New New England England Our Climate

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Fear Me More Afraid Anything Being

If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.

You Lose Run Marathon Tall Need

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

Mind Me You Conversation Now Ask

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friend Wise Dangerous Enemy Nothing

There are no patents in finance.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Finance Patents

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Cold American Literature Dead Pure

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

Love Business You Mean Top Him

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Good Father Parents Me Play Old

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

Women Feel Always Being Like Judged

It's so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice.

Cake Small Comforting Just One Just

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

Problem Goal Tax Washington Taxes

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

Lonely You Must Make Exceptional

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