James Stockdale Quotes
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
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I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
