Alistair Horne Quotes
Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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I think people who lack humility are really annoying.
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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
