Rick Atkinson Quotes
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.Rick Atkinson
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown -
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber -
I never thought I'd be an actor.
Zach LaVine -
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Walt Alston -
I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
Naomie Harris -
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Samantha Power -
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
Olivia Wilde -
I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
Jackie Evancho -
I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
Xi Jinping -
The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.
Barney Frank -
You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
Billy Koch -
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
Kevin J. Anderson -
There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
Charles Duhigg -
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
Marco Brambilla
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
John W. Snow -
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.
James McGreevey -
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza -
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
Erica Jong -
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
Rick Atkinson