Antony Beevor Quotes

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Antony Beevor

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• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Ever
  • Biggest
  • Award

• Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Like
  • Wine
  • Sarcasm

• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Ocean
  • Confused

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Everything
  • Percent
  • Tide

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Education

• The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Time
  • Education
  • Identity

• It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • True
  • Team
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Important
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Ghetto

• I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Summer

• Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Health
  • Proud
  • Christianity

• What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Want
  • Talking
  • Instinct

• I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

  

  Antony Beevor