Jim Webb Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
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People are getting patents on things that are too general.
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I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
