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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The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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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.
