Chuck Hagel Quotes
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..
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You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.
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No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.