Ben Macintyre Quotes

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Ben Macintyre

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Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

Jimmy Hill

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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

John Clute

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A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

Amitava Kumar

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My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.

Tom Brokaw

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My father fought for me to play football. He never had to make me shinpads, but it was a lot of money to send to me to a soccer school. And to provide boots and things.

Luka Modric

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I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Joss Whedon

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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Deepak Chopra

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I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

Claire Danes

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Paul Tsongas

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I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

Scott Ian

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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney

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