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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When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
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...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.
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In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
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And he says that the mountains are fairerFor once being held in your thought;
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In order to do something you must be something.
