Chuck Hagel Quotes
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
