Rick Atkinson Quotes
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
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I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.
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Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
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Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!
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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
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Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
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Success has killed more men than bullets.
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Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.
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Nothing human is foreign to us.
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If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
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Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
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Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.
