Rick Atkinson Quotes

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.

Rick Atkinson

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• Society
• Empowerment

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• There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Live
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• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

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• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

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• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Writing
  • Family
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• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Hate

• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Done
  • Reason
  • Doing

• I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Man
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Perspective

• My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
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• Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

  

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  • Easy
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• If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

  

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  • Night
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• I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

  

  Natalie Cole
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  • Rock

• Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Words

• Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

  

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  • People

• Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

  

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  • Society
  • Moral

• The success story of the word postmodernism demands to be written, no doubt in best-seller format; such lexical neoevents, in which the coinage of a neologism has all the reality impact of a corporate merger, are among the novelties of media society which require not merely study but the establishment of a whole new media-lexicological subdiscipline.

  

  Fredric Jameson
  • Success
  • Society
  • Reality

• The man is ugly, the man is evil, and the man is in love. This is gonna be an American classic.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • American
  • Evil
  • Ugly

• Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • American
  • Society
  • Empowerment