Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

John Gregory Dunne

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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

Anita Roddick

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The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.

Ann Leckie

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Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

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I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

Steve Zahn

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When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

Tom Douglas

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On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.

Michael McKean

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I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

Michael Moore

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Bonnie Hunt

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India has a consistent and well-known position on terrorism. We oppose all acts of terrorism, wherever they occur. We have repeatedly said that no cause can justify violence and destruction, particularly aimed at civilians.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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