James G. Stavridis Quotes

The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

James G. Stavridis

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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Jim Ramstad

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'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Joe Morton

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First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.

Jodi Kantor

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

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I'd like to be known for my character.

Soundarya

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

ScienceHistoryGreatSimpleStart

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

Rob Portman

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Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.

Rose George

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My voice is not very dynamic.

Lou Barlow

VoiceDynamicVery

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Brian Chesky

MemoriesRepetitionCreateNew

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

Brantley Gilbert

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Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

Bret Stephens

GoodIdeasYouSayExecutionPretty

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