James G. Stavridis Quotes
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
