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

• 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 started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • New York
  • Looking Back

• It's an ear job, not an eye job.

  

  Donald T. Regan
  • Job

• I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Words
  • Deeds

• I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

  

  Phil Niekro

• Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct-never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Smile

• 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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