John C. Stennis Quotes
The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.
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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
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I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
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To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
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Music was my one way to vent.
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The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.