Antony Beevor Quotes
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.
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Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
