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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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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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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
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I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.
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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.
