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Antony Beevor Quotes

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: December 14, 1946

Topics

History Past People Voice Want Give

To me, that's what the Peace Corps is all about - the impact that simple acts of service can have across borders, generations, and time. It's a lesson I carry with me every day.

Joe Kennedy III

Time Service Day Simple Peace Me

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Back Pilot Coming Left Understood

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

John F. Kennedy

I Am Party President Who Candidate

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Someone Sober Addiction Never Except

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

People End Look Down Up Being

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Work Money I Am People Think Normal

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge Decision Society Principal

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

Love Time Myself Best Me Pressure

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

Personal Own Piano Playing Your

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Life Good Place Go Will Ask

Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.

Doing Dream True Come Just Cartoons

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Religion Book Take Where Away None

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