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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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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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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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
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If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.
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It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.
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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
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I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
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Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
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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.
