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James G. Stavridis Quotes

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

James G. Stavridis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Sea Time My Life Result Navy

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Jim Gaffigan

Funny Challenge Fun Think Something

Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.

Jim Brown

Education Knowledge Freedom Justice

We've got many different sides of music to us.

John Otto

Music Sides Got Us Different Many

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Johnny Carson

Time New York New Where Something

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Meryl Streep

Space Earth Things Like Suspended

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Steven Klein

Me Someone Loser Camera Bad Kid

I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Texas Fence Down Always Own

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.

Sidney Crosby

Mighty Little Older Ducks Watched

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

Rory O'Malley

Legends Martin Lawrence

The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.

Jools Holland

Great People You Know Want Dead

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

Dennis Prager

Dog Results Know Vote Try First

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'

Chris Messina

Walk Ending Wish You Go Done