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Jim Webb Quotes

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Leadership Long Crisis Vietnam

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

Life Culture Youth Reading Early

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

Christian Jewish Part Mostly

Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

Sturgill Simpson

Live Great Know Said Three Talk

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Knowledge Electrical Telephone Radio

As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

Super Bowl Important Planet Big Deal

Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses - diversity of opinion and belief - has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way.

Diversity Opinion Tolerance True Way

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.

Truth I Am Looking Truth Is End You

I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?

Love Always Hulk Spider-Man Who Had

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

Work Survey Used Engineer Crew He

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Age Great Challenges Tools Moments

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Community Myself Yourself Me You

I consider myself extremely fortunate, and I am more happy for all the attention that I constantly garner.

Myself I Am Happy Attention More Am

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