James Stockdale Quotes
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
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The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
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In Stalin each Soviet bureaucrat easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
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Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.
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I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.
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I think there's a song for every moment. I don't think there's one right love song.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.
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If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
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Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
