Rick Atkinson Quotes

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.

Rick Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1952

Topics

OpportunityHistoryPeopleCoolYou

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.

Jim Mattis

WomenYouGoKnowVeilAfghanistan

As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.

Robert Mundell

LoveMeChoiceCanadaRightTheory

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Michael Birch

BestFriendsSomeoneTryingPerson

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

Amber Valletta

DesignSustainabilityThingsTake

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

Steve Kanaly

PeopleThinkPrideLookImportant

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

Tom Colicchio

BusinessFoodMeThinkRestaurant

It's hard to be as good as Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were, but we're going to do our best, both myself and Philippe Coutinho, to get close to them and be the best players we can be for the Brazilian national team.

Roberto Firmino

GoodMyselfBestTeamHardGoing

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

Romelu Lukaku

MoneyFootballMeWinWantPrizes

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

Michio Kaku

SteelOldYearsMilesGotMillion

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Miranda Lambert

MusicCoolLongYouKnowLittle

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Boris Spassky

RichChessSovietSoviet UnionUnion

For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.

Aquaria

WomanMeAnythingDragBeingAbout

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