Jim Gilmore Quotes
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.
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What is art? Prostitution.
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There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.
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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
