Antony Beevor Quotes
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
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If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.
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It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
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Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
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I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
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When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
