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H. W. Brands Quotes

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Writing Little Big Been Lot

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

World Driving Nation Jewish Middle

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

Smart Parents Conflict Try Up Kids

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

Leader Organization Chief CEO

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Person Want Rare Who Hear He

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Man Identity Action Bond Look Arts

There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

Son Wife Yourself Me Think Driving

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Movies Like Some Quite Many Them

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

School End Hollywood Old Old School

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Thomas Friedman

Research Face-To-Face Reporting

Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

History Spiritual Ignore Situation

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Lincoln Steffens

Business Men Better Corruption

I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.'

Julie Ann Dawson

Time Together Sister Book Story She

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