Alistair Horne Quotes
Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.

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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to.
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
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Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
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Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.