Alistair Horne Quotes

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

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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Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

John Lee Hancock

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For me, it feels empowering to walk down a runway in my underwear!

Stella Maxwell

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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

Tom Waits

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I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.

Robbie Williams

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I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Ron Moody

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I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

Mary Helen Bowers

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For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.

Brendan Gleeson

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At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

Arlo Guthrie

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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Arthur Helps

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Allan Bloom

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