Rick Atkinson Quotes
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
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You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.
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He's a rat. That's not true. I'm just concerned about my son.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
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Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.
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Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.
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D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.
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As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
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One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.
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Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.
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Success has killed more men than bullets.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
