Jim Webb Quotes
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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He who talks much cannot talk well.
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The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.
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It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
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A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
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The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
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If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.
