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Jim Webb Quotes

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

Jim Webb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Opportunity Freedom People World

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

Joe Haldeman

Good Courage Great Think Enjoy Kind

Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

John Francis Daley

Writing Stupid Remember House Play

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

Anders Holm

Love Wisdom School Me Speak Class

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

Ruben Blades

Life Mother City Professional Songs

In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.

Mike Bidlo

Work Art Language Trying You Become

You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how the public digests it that will be indicative of what the series will ultimately be.

Mike Colter

You Want Will Try Intentions Guide

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Mitch Landrieu

America Problem You Go Race Over

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

Chris Gethard

Personality People City Down New

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

Chevy Chase

You Young Well Chase Chevy Movie

I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.

Christine McVie

Grateful Welcome Meant To Be Years

It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.

Arca

Believe Body Want Grotesque Inhabit

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Tobias Wolff

Live Expression Us Because Most Our