Rick Atkinson Quotes
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
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At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.
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We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.
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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.