Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

Jesse Ventura

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For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

Jeff Bridges

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Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

Michael Enzi

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I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.

John Schlesinger

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What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

America Ferrera

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Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

Tracy K. Smith

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

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We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

Jason Alexander

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I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

Diane Lane

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Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Armie Hammer

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An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

Alison Goldfrapp

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I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

Selma Blair

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