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.
Rabih Alameddine -
I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
Muhammad Ali -
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.
Charles Dickens -
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.
Aaron Siskind -
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.
Arthur Fogel -
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.
Gavin Friday
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Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
Wilford Brimley -
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!
Michael Owen Bruce -
Men make history. History does not make the man.
Harry S Truman -
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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.
Alexandra Patsavas -
Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
Angelo Sotira
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Success has killed more men than bullets.
Texas Guinan -
Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.
Steve Easterbrook -
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.
Philip Caputo -
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum