Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Jeremy Grantham

GoodHistoryResponsibilityIdeas

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

LeadershipPeaceOvercomingTrue

In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'

Matthew Desmond

CommunityColdFebruaryThreeBronx

Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

Ann Bancroft

FamilyWayRiskEveryoneOwnHer

As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it in relationship to yourself, and say, 'I think this is a pattern,' or 'I think this is the way fatherhood works,' or 'I think this is the way first love feels.' The danger in that is, that's when you open yourself up to real critique.

Jeff Nichols

LoveRelationshipYourselfWorldYou

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Mickey Hart

QualityGratefulDesignDeadSound

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Louise Brooks

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I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

Audrina Patridge

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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

NothingTaskHangingEternal

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

Peter Greenaway

PurposeThinkDoingCinemaWhyWay

I love directors who aren't going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the typical Hollywood box. I'm very, very interested in films that are going outside of stereotypical roles for women.

Sheryl Lee

LoveWomenBackCreateStereotypes

My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why?'

Tyler Blackburn

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