James Stockdale Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
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Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
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The fact that both killers arrived on bikes added a peculiarly Dutch flavor to their murders.
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Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
