Jim Webb Quotes
Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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If you're asked, you've got to serve - put aside any reservations based on campaign rhetoric... and figure out what's best for the country.
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I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
