James G. Stavridis Quotes

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

James G. Stavridis

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Way
  • Me

• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Hell
  • Sales

• He who can believe himself well, will be well.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Will
  • Well

• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Role
  • Written

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Good
  • Political
  • Decision

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Crowded

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Value

• I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Today
  • Lost

• The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Home
  • Last
  • Isolation

• In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

  

  Anne Boyd
  • Romantic

• I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

  

  William Lashner
  • Trust
  • Novels
  • Points

• I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Petty