Alistair Horne Quotes
Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
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Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.
