Alistair Horne Quotes

The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.

Alistair Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

Maye Musk

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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

Michael Hayden

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I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.

Michael Beasley

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I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Amanda Fuller

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It's my job to be ridiculous.

Stromae

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My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Roger Moore

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I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Mat Kearney

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We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.

Jose Andres

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I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

Christina Aguilera

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A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

Phyllis Battelle

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