J. D. Vance Quotes

I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

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• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

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• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  

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• I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

  

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• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

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• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

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• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

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• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

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• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

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• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

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• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

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• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

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• The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

  

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• We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

  

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• Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

  

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• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

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• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

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• I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

  

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• I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

  

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
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