Antony Beevor Quotes

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

Antony Beevor

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CityEndTryingYouPerfectCapture

I take my craft very seriously.

Jimmy Chamberlin

SeriouslyCraftTakeVery

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

Jerry Greenfield

GreatMeFreeGreat ThingsDelicious

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Maya Hawke

SuccessThinkYouWantWayTalk

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

Angelina Jolie

LifeCalmFeelYouNeverCommit

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

John Philip Sousa

RespectBestWorldBelieveEqual

I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

Toni Kroos

FootballEnjoySpecialPlayingAbout

Selling out Saudi women is an old-established tradition.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenTraditionSellingOutSaudi

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

Michael Moore

FoodFreeYouLookWrongNice

The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.

Chris Carter

ExperiencePeopleAmazingEnergyGo

Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.'

Alissa Quart

WorkLoveLaborWhyNeedWorkers

There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.

Peter Ackroyd

WalkPeopleYouLookDoneSee

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Pete Hegseth

DiversityCivilizationStriveDefend

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