John Poindexter (John Marlan Poindexter) Quotes
I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
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Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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There are now discussions taking place on other aspects of the negotiating framework, principally on this issue about absorption capacity and privileged partnership.
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For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax.
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Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.
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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
