Rick Atkinson Quotes

I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.

Rick Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.

Jerry Costello

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You can road-test relationships.

Joel Edgerton

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If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

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I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

John Templeton

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I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!

Stana Katic

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If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

Robert Vaughn

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When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

Mohammad Azharuddin

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Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Jon M. Chu

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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

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The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Corrine Brown

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Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Colm Meaney

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