James Fallows Quotes
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
