Jim Garrison Quotes

I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

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• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligence
  • Dry

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Sun

• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Vision
  • Capital
  • Scarce

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Way
  • Me
  • Stories

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Age
  • Father
  • Education

• A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Attention

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Live
  • Travel
  • Weekend

• I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Time
  • God

• Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Car

• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Imagine
  • Kingdom
  • Jewel

• The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

  

  Alvaro Uribe
  • Dream

• I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

  

  Jim Garrison
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