James G. Stavridis Quotes
We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
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The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.
