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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• 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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• How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

  

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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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• It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.

  

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• Of all the projects I've ever done, 'Stargate' is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy. We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn't want to do anything other than the TV series.

  

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• I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

  

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• With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

  

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• It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

  

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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.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • American
  • Powerful
  • Planet