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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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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'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
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Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me
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[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
