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H. W. Brands Quotes

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience President Policy Things

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

Writing Joke Superhero Willing He

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Job School New York Singing New Had

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

Love Culture School High School High

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

Work Best Deadline Panic After

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

Good Stars People Famous Enough You

It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

Women Men Lie Look Place Young

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

People Think You Know Nervous See

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'

Style Upside Down Guitar Down Say

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

Allyson Schwartz

Budget Country Say Emergency Going

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

Music Perception Want Movies Act

There were good jobs, but they were never what I wanted to do. Somehow, people always thought of Wilma Rudolph as a threat.

Good People Thought Never Always

If you want to boo, I want you to boo me as loud as you can, because I think that's a sign of respect: You don't boo the bad players; you boo the really good ones.

Good Respect Me Think You Bad

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