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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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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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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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.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.