Jim Webb Quotes
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
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And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.
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I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
