James Stockdale Quotes

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

James Stockdale

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1923 - July 5, 2005

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I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

John Bolton

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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.

Andre Ward

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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

Andrei Sakharov

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The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Jeff Healey

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

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The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Tracey Ullman

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I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

Tony Fadell

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People need medicine and they need therapists.

Mickey Rourke

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Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

JR

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Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.

Juan Williams

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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Condoleezza Rice

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I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Bobby Orr

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