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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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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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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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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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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You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.
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According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.
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In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
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When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.
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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.
