Jim McDermott Quotes
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
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I've directed independent film.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
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Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.
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If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.
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We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
