Alistair Horne Quotes
I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.
