Rick Atkinson Quotes
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
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Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
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The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.
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What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
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That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.
