Alistair Horne Quotes

Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

Alistair Horne

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

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• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

  

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• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

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• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

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• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
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• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
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• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.

  

  Madhur Mittal
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• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
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• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

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• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.

  

  Christina Rossetti
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• One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.

  

  Lewis Mumford
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• For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

  

  Alessia Cara

• You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
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• I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

  

  Dave Eggers
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• Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • War
  • Positive
  • Cold