Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989

Topics

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I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.

Jimmy Lai

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I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

Anatoli Boukreev

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People get really turned off by feminism.

Amy Schumer

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As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

Stan Wawrinka

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I just wanted to have a private life.

Sia

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I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

Mike Binder

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There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.

Michael Mosley

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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

Michael Morpurgo

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To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

Mo Farah

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Once upon a time, it was the Democrats who claimed to be the party of the working man. No longer. They abandoned the working guy. They slammed the door in their face, and now, it's President Trump and the new Republican Party that is supporting working Americans, blue-collar workers.

Corey Stewart

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You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Chuck Liddell

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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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