Rick Atkinson Quotes
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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I still think I am the greatest.
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Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
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We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.
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An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
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It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.
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I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
