James F. Amos Quotes
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
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'What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually- our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it.'But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
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Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
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All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
