Annie Jacobsen Quotes

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

Annie Jacobsen

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I think everything happens for a reason.

Jodie Comer

ThinkReasonEverythingHappens

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

Joey Kramer

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I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.

Jeremy Renner

DoneWantAnythingComeBeforeForm

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer

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Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

Metta World Peace

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Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

John Sheffield

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Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Steven Spielberg

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There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Robert D. Hare

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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Mary Ritter Beard

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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

Michael Smith

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My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

Dimebag Darrell

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