James Stockdale Quotes
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
James Stockdale
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
Zac Brown Band
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
Pankaj Mishra
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
P. J. O'Rourke
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'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
Katharine Viner
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Abraham Flexner
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
Chandra Wilson
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
James Stockdale
