Antony Beevor Quotes
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I know about raising money.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The 32-year period is up in 2018. So the time has come. History tells us that we're going to produce a fairer, simpler tax code by 2018.
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The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding manners. There are two sorts of ill-breeding: the one a sheepish bashfulness, and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
