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H. W. Brands Quotes

I'm trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see there's a particular task for each generation that I write about.

H. W. Brands

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1953

Topics

Life Time Story Generation America

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.

Jeremy Clarkson

Life Child Without Pretty Fortunate

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

John Dickey

More Human Combination Than

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Stendhal

America Envy Wit France Far Than

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

Siobhan Davies

Work Good I Am Enough Go Sometimes

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

Russell Hornsby

Work I Am Meaning Want Depth Who

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

Religion Capable Superstition Only

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Diane Farr

Judge Meet Teachers First Preschool

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

Cobie Smulders

Desert Eat Days Retreat Where Eight

I'm not too big on feelings.

Colin Kaepernick

Feelings Big Too

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.

Ari Graynor

People Doing The Right Thing Doing

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

William James

Lie Potential Special Normal Call

The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

Peter Dinklage

Think You Bad White Become Stagnant