Jim Webb Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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A true man hates no one.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
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The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech. . . . Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer.
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Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.
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I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.
