Jim Webb Quotes
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
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One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
