H. W. Brands Quotes

It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either their contemporary correspondence or after-the-fact memoirs.

H. W. Brands

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WordsHardThroughHeadLeftGet

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

John O. Brennan

ThinkLanguageTryingWhyProject

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

FriendshipLoveGoodConfidenceFire

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Ann Jillian

LifeWomanMeFeelNowExplore

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Jeffrey Brown

WorkArtChildhoodSchoolCollege

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

WorkLearningHistoryTimeCountry

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Steven Pinker

NatureEmpathyHuman NatureViolence

No matter what setting I play in, I will always be New Orleans. It's one of the only cities where you can hang out with the Marsalis family, the Neville brothers, whoever it might be, and we all play together.

Trombone Shorty

FamilyTogetherYouPlayNewMatter

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Ronnie Spector

ArtDyingStagePerformingForm

With the House of Marley, over the years we've been trying to establish ourselves not just as a brand but a lifestyle movement. So it's been a challenge to get people to adapt to our new way of thinking. We're all about sustainability, the natural life, the eco life.

Rohan Marley

LifeChallengePeopleBrandThinking

People have a right to be able to bear arms.

Mitt Romney

PeopleBearRightArmsAble

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

Lorde

LoveShoppingYouThreeEverything

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Dianne Reeves

MotherBornDetroitRaisedActually

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