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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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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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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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you
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I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
