James Stockdale Quotes
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Time will heal everything.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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There are some things about Trump's foundation and charity that I really want to know. I worry there may not be enough time to figure it all out.
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There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
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In order to do something you must be something.
