Antony Beevor Quotes
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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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 remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
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A photograph can express silence.
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I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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I take being a role model very seriously.
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I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.
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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.
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I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
