Rick Atkinson Quotes
I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.

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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.
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In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.