James Stewart Quotes

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

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• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Believe
  • Powerful
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• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  

  Gary Cole
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• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • Wind
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• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • President
  • Here

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
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• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
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• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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  • Women
  • Family

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Father
  • Parents

• I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

  

  Natalie Maines
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  • Children
  • Worry

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

  

  M. J. Hyland
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  • Never
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• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
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• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  

  Warren Mitchell
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  • Happy

• I grew up on a tiny little island.

  

  Samantha Barks
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  • Little
  • Island

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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  • Up
  • Heart

• If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
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  • Great
  • Dream

• Songwriting's a weird game.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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  • Weird

• We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Heart
  • Art

• If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

  

  James Stewart
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