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Jim Barksdale Quotes

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1943

Topics

Jump Living Company Own Take Proof

Vermont's a very liberal state.

Liberal Vermont State Very

Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.

Father Music Hero Responsibility Me

My first professional job was a Pete Bowker series for ITV called 'Monroe.' I played a Junior Cardiac Surgeon called Mullery.

Job Professional First Surgeon

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

Friend Son College Me Team Game

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

John J. McLaughlin

Today Ideas Free American Political

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

Growing Up Growing Skating Up Tomboy

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Work Time School Writing More Write

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Stephen J. Dubner

Small Think Feedback You Know Freak

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Desert Forward Farm Want California

I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it.

Roger Ross Williams

Work Change Think Hollywood System

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Man Baseball Golf You Knife Club

The greatest meal of my life involved a Triscuit.

Life My Life Meal Involved Greatest

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