A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.A. J. P. Taylor
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
Faith Evans -
'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand -
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
H. R. McMaster -
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
J. J. Watt -
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
Raine Maida
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy -
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten -
Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
Shad Gregory Moss -
I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
Kevin Systrom -
Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip a generation.
Blase J. Cupich -
Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.
Bob Ross -
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
A. J. P. Taylor