Stuart Symington (William Stuart Symington, Jr.) Quotes
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.
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The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.
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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.
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I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
