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.Rick Atkinson
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
Jack Lynch -
When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Damien Hirst -
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.
Carlene Carter -
The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
Yani Tseng -
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.
Sam Kean
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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.
Youssou N'Dour -
Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
Edmond Rostand -
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
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.
Andrew Breitbart -
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Andrew Mason -
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon
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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.
Baratunde Thurston -
I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.
Edward Burns -
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
Quintus Curtius Rufus -
I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Bill Vaughan -
The only problem is time.
Seth MacFarlane
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
Mal Peet -
One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
Nancy Wilson Heart -
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.
Rick Atkinson