Alistair Horne Quotes

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

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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I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

John Sayles

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Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.

John Ross Bowie

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Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.

Tucker Carlson

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You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Trevor Rabin

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We fear the thing we want the most.

Robert Anthony

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My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

Rutina Wesley

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Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Roland Joffe

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The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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I never record in front of anybody.

Missy Elliott

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Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rather than providing learners with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Mitchel Resnick

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There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan

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I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.

Brooke Burke

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