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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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.
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I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
