James Longstreet Quotes

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

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• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

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• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

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• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

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• Imagination rules the world.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

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• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

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• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

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• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

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• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

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• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

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• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

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• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

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• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

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• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

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• Being a social entrepreneur is a balancing act between growing and sustaining a business while also growing the company's ability to give back.

  

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  

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• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

  

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• I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

  

  James Longstreet
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