Antony Beevor Quotes
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
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Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
