James Stockdale Quotes
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.James Stockdale
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
Barnabe Barnes -
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner -
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
Dan Scanlon -
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester -
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade -
'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
Sabrina Bryan
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
Edgar Wright -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
Kangana Ranaut -
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
C. L. R. James -
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
Gavin O'Connor -
It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
Zara Larsson
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
Taryn Simon -
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
Aaron Neville -
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain Banks -
I've never really done any interviews as myself.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
Tariq Ali -
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
Nancy Horan
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Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.
Phyllida Lloyd -
The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.
Charles Boustany -
I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
Matt Mullenweg -
He wasn't calm. He was angry, and he had every right to be. What I got out of it is that the guys need to take a challenge to make this team better. He talked about this bad time were going through and how we need to stick together. It's very important for us to stay together as a unit.
Allen Iverson -
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
Joanne Rowling -
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
James Stockdale