Antony Beevor Quotes
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
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Whether I'm in the main event or on the preliminary card, the same Cowboy is going to be out there.
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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
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They make the decisions. Hopefully, I can make it harder, or make (the decision to promote him) faster.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
