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.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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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.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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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.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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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.
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I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
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I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.
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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.
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The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
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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.
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
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There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
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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.
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Each natural agent works but to this end,-To render that it works on like itself.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
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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.
