Jim Webb Quotes
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.Jim Webb
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
J. K. Simmons -
I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
Mallory Jansen -
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
Madhuri Dixit -
I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
Daniel Boulud -
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
Olivia Wilde -
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
Dani Shapiro
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I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Tamsin Egerton
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
Zong Qinghou -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap -
I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
Zoe Kazan -
As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
Rachel Maddow -
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
John Patrick Shanley -
I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
Garrison Keillor -
People love to talk about themselves.
Angela Ahrendts -
More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different'.
Carmen Reinhart -
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.
Jim Webb