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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You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
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I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
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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.
