James G. Stavridis Quotes

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

James G. Stavridis

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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Best

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • World
  • Way
  • Acting

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Parents
  • Story
  • Feet

• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Want

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • You
  • Band
  • Better

• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Space
  • Like
  • Film

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Constant

• Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Question
  • Storm
  • Flag

• Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Lost

• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Short
  • Him
  • Upset

• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Firsts
  • Depression

• In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I'll put on a gray wig and do it.' But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.

  

  Peter Graves
  • World

• In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. (I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground – the paper and the measure of the ground and the marks are to be considered of equal importance). In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Painting

• In Martin County, many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, and they're continuing to provide those services as we assess what the impact is, ... And really, some of these neighborhoods - until the water goes down - people are not going to get back into their homes and start making repairs.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Homes
  • Opened
  • Shelters

• Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

  

  James G. Stavridis