Max Hastings Quotes
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
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You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
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I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.
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People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
