James G. Stavridis Quotes
All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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My great-grandparents came from Poland. Interestingly enough, they were named Adam and Eve. But I do not believe they are the original.
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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
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Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
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All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.
