Rick Atkinson Quotes
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
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I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.
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I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.
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I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.
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I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
