James Woolsey Quotes

Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

James Woolsey

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• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Consideration

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
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• How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Man

• Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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  • Style
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• Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Women
  • Respect

• I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Moment

• The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • History
  • Black
  • Amazing

• It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Human
  • Actor

• There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Evil
  • Series
  • Lucas

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Church

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
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• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Family
  • Very
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• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Art
  • Honor

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
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  • Surroundings

• The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Movie
  • Leader
  • Colleges

• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Oil
  • Obama
  • Producing