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James G. Stavridis Quotes

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

James G. Stavridis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1955

Topics

Ideas Better Need Get Excellent

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.

Light Travel People Green World

I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.

People Trying Lost Working Hard Hard

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

People Think Problem Said Whole

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

Truth History Quality Poetry You

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.

Tristram Stuart

Wild Rabbit Feed Greener Different

My first record was almost not my first record.

First Almost Record

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Love Love Is Song Whole Venus

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Rosemary Clooney

Yellow Colors Night Loved Hands

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

Acting More Two Always Act Aware

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.

Home Hope I Am World Start America

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

Women Responsibility Men Control You

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

Character Writing You Page Well

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