Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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Author Biography

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

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Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

Jerry Harrison

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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

John Crowe Ransom

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There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

John Maeda

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Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

John Otto

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I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

Steve Buscemi

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When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

Ronald Kessler

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As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

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It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

Jason Priestley

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Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.

Janet Varney

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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Nina Simone

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Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

Richard Branson

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