Chuck Hagel Quotes
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
Quotes to Explore
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.
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The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.
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I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
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We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?
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We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again
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Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
