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James Salter Quotes

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

Topics

Name You Right Clothing Impression

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Leadership Good Leader Job Humility

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Intelligence Support Human Call Our

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Peace Impossible Revolution Peaceful

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Parents Me Painting Think Acting

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Great America Tradition Country Same

I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.

Love Universe Say Star Would Fan

I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were hard for me, I wouldn't be doing this work. Rather, I think I'd be more sad when a day come when people don't recognize me.

Work Sad Day People Me Think

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

People Boat Australia Way Coming

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.

Beach Child Parents Me Country Know

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life, and the fact that I do that is quite overwhelming, really.

Life Hope People Better Feel Laugh

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Diana Wynne Jones

Alone Mirror Yourself Being Alone

I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.

Time Tired People Saying Bad Guy

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