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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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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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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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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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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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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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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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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.
