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Robert Fisk Quotes

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: July 12, 1946

Topics

War Me Book Silly Desire His

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

Believe Compromise I Believe Matter

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Music Age Style Always May Been

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Nature Beautiful Looking Heaven Seem

If you talk to a British officer or NCO about the strategic objectives of the end state, you'll often get a spirited discussion that's very well informed.

Stanley A. McChrystal

End You Talk Discussion Informed

I like potential in people. If I find someone who has lot of potential and can do something with life, then I don't see bank balance, which family he comes from, or his religion.

Life Family Religion Balance People

You ain't got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn't an option: that's just a big part of life.

Life Waiting Wait You More Big

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

Character Lie I Am Writing Drive

One of the dominant styles of the decade following the Second World War was that of Dan Barry. He flourished in the years during which comic books were expanding into new categories - realistic adventure, true crime, romance, Western, sophisticated fantasy.

Adventure War World New True Crime

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

Key Done Principles Things Get Like

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Wrong Right Being Something Going

Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.

Day Every Day Early Earth Cleaning

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Animal World Land Wild Begin Up

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