Linda Colley Quotes

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

Linda Colley

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TrueSameEmpireModernityShifting

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

JJ Feild

Growing UpIgnoreYouGrowingAlways

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

Robert McFarlane

WarPracticeConflictStrategyBad

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Slash

RiskVocabularyExistenceWordVery

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.

Tom Cruise

GoodGood TimesYouCreateImportant

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

Robert Winston

GoodFriendTruthSciencePresent

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Miguel de Icaza

ChooseOverBecauseCannotCode

Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Monica Crowley

PositiveHistoryHappyPoliticalOwn

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

Jay-Z

ExcellenceLuckYouOverHighLevel

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom.

David Wilcock

LifeTimeSpaceMindEnergyResult

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Chen Guangcheng

WomenChildrenSilentAgainstCannot

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.

Anthony Zinni

ThinkSituationMoreNeedRight

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

Anton Yelchin

HollywoodOutHangTrendyBars

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