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Alistair Horne Quotes

After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: November 9, 1925 - May 25, 2017

Topics

Loyalty Turn Heroic Every Dedicated

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Together Song Idiot Going Bang Five

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

You Congress Never Capacity Loses

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Women History Woman Thoughts Writing

When we first created the Lyft community, we wanted to make cities feel smaller and more connected by bringing people together through transportation. In 20 months since we launched, we've seen drivers and passengers redefine the true meaning of community through Lyft in countless ways.

Community Together People Meaning

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Internet Gambling Three Become Study

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Family Change School Parents College

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

Decision You Bad Pictures Done Rent

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

Acting California Out Pursue Get

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

Vocabulary Simplest Preferred

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

I Am Interesting You Look Way More

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

Good Simplicity Think Better More

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Great Writing Nothing Joke Like

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