James G. Stavridis Quotes

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

James G. Stavridis

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Fate
  • Fools
  • Sign

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wish

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • She
  • Look
  • Sexy

• I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Job
  • Law

• I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Cleaning
  • Closet

• Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Immigration
  • Ultimate

• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Internet
  • Wrong
  • Horrible

• The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Man
  • Know

• You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • You
  • Enough

• I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Great
  • Old
  • Economists

• Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

  

  Lynda Obst
  • Women
  • Single
  • Sick

• Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Excellence

• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'

  

  Byron Howard
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Equality
  • Independence
  • Key

• In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

  

  James G. Stavridis