James Stockdale Quotes
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
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You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.
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Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,pögiff,Kwii Ee.
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
