James G. Stavridis Quotes
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
D. B. Weiss -
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
Adam McKay -
Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
Zach McGowan -
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Hanya Yanagihara -
A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
Dan Shechtman -
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner -
Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
Obie Trice -
The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.
Adam Hicks -
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Malorie Blackman -
Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.
Earl Weaver -
People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
Nathan Lane
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I thrive on competition.
Natalie Massenet -
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George -
No way in, go in, measure.
Samuel Beckett -
I have always known a thing before it happens.
Amy Tan -
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Cuando lo superficial me cansa, me cansa tanto, que para descansar necesito un abismo.
Antonio Porchia
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I -
It was evident that he revived by fits and starts. He would suddenly come to himself from actual delirium for a few minutes; he would remember and talk with complete consciousness, chiefly in disconnected phrases which he had perhaps thought out and learnt by heart in the long weary hours of his illness, in his bed, in sleepless solitude.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
'My Fair Lady' will never get old for me.
Lisa O'Hare -
Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava -
How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
William H. Gass -
Rested commanders are the best commanders.
James G. Stavridis