Edmund Morgan Quotes

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

Edmund Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013

Topics

TimeIndependencePresentAmerican

I have never been an activist for anything.

Jim Parsons

NeverAnythingBeenActivist

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Joan Rivers

WorkFaceLooksGoLyingWay

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Max McKeown

DetailsGrowBetterTryingEarly

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

John M. Ford

LostChallenged

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.

John Mackey

SuccessHealingThinkAmericaDoing

'New Girl' was a wonderful experience, but for seven years, we were shooting single-cam that is not handheld, that is traditionally shot, and they're asking you to improv, and you're on location. It's a real grind.

Max Greenfield

GirlExperienceYouGrindNewReal

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

Anna Chlumsky

PlaceNextWherePushingEnvelope

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

Shuji Nakamura

FireMeCareQuitAfraidAnything

Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.

Ronny Chieng

ChangeHurtYouUnderwearHurts

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Mary Szybist

FaithHopeTimeSometimesHard

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.

Mickey Rourke

YourselfYouKnowMoviesBoringWay

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

Donald Trump, Jr.

GreatPeopleCountryDustLeftBeen

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