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Jim Webb Quotes

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1946

Topics

Life I Am My Life Comfortable More

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

People World Rest Back Go Two

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

Respect Great Man People Think You

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

People Legal Want Through Gone Like

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Education Mother School I Am College

I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today.

Today Hope Walk Past Me Strong

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Stokely Carmichael

Knowledge Now Then Had

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Me Doing Go Sometimes Want Right

I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Work People Free Remember Pretending

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Dreams Impact Grow Grow Up Profound

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Christopher Hitchens

Think Interesting Discovery Knowing

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Step Interesting You Understand Fact

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Chess Initiative Poor More Modern

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