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Anthony Sampson Quotes

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: August 3, 1926 - December 18, 2004

Topics

Personality Unknown Committee Extra

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Power Signs Individual Check Who

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.

School Baseball Me High School High

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

Martin Van Creveld

Great War People Desert Majority

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.

Love Home Look Comfortable Somewhere

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

Love You Use Sort Watercolors Thing

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

Step Writing Easy Find Acting Out

My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it.

Family Car Morning Me Night Believe

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Preston Manning

Values Conservative More Used

Sometimes I wrestled in front of very small crowds for very small amounts.

Small Sometimes Front Crowds Very

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Music Wife Wind Tools Changes First

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Eye Late Born Lazy Never Too Late

I'm OK with failing. You've got to fail in life in order to get better. I'm going to be fine.

Life Better You Order Fail Going

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