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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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
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A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
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I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.
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Nearly 1,000 dead -- I cannot remember a time when so many were killed in such a short space of time.
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Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
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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.
