Antony Beevor Quotes
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
Quotes to Explore
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
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I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.
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This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors.
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Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.
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Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
