Alistair Horne Quotes

In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Alistair Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I believe in health care reform.

Joe Manchin

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We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

Andrew Solomon

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The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.

Robert Kazinsky

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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Mary Cassatt

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My parents were immigrants and janitors.

Martin Shkreli

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When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

Lou Barlow

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The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

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I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Antony Beevor

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I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Ashley Scott

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Bret and I were friends, but we were young, and we made bad decisions. We couldn't see outside the wrestling business. It was the end-all, be-all. You were in that box constantly, so that's all you thought about. It affects your decision-making.

Shawn Michaels

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I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

Thomas Vinterberg

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There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

Nikki Reed

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