Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 11, 1956

Topics

LiveBetterUpUsExampleFounders

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

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Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

Jo Brand

RacismCasualCharmingStomachLike

I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.

Jeremy Scott

PeopleMeCarePrincessWantLike

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

LifeMy LifeNirvanaChangedHeard

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

John Edgar Wideman

FaithHistoryGreatStrugglePeople

The best thing of all is God is with us.

John Wesley

GodBestUsThing

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.

Stephen Kinzer

HistoryWrongImperialismSeizeCost

Every game means something, the supporters are fantastic, and since I've come to Palace, I've learnt to fight as a team and for the three points.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.

Russ

MusicTimeTasteOutGutWell

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

Mathias Rust

WifeThreeYearsWhereAwayMoved

Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.

Mitch McConnell

NeverHighAlmostCandidateEffect

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

Milla Jovovich

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