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.James Stockdale
Quotes to Explore
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch -
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.
Nancy Meyers -
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.
Nancy Farmer
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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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Maira Kalman -
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver -
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy -
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Lao Tzu
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
Sally Quinn -
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry -
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier -
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid -
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
Dan DeCarlo -
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.
Paul Tsongas -
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
Iain Banks -
You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
Bill Hader -
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.
James Stockdale