Rick Atkinson Quotes
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
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I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
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I started working as a movie writer and a movie producer... all the way back to 'Teen Wolf' and 'Commando.' All of those experiences, plus working both at DC and at Marvel - each of those things are bricks in the wall.
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What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...
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My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
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Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
