Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
Wale -
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
Kate Winslet -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky -
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Orson Pratt -
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Naomi Campbell -
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
Karl Lehmann -
The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.
Tammy Duckworth -
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama -
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett -
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
Anthony Zinni -
Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
Arthur Miller -
Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.
Carl Safina
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy -
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac -
We have an ascending player in Brian Quick, who, I think, is going to be a very, very solid player for us.
Jeff Fisher -
It may sound crazy to people, but I don't follow any spiritual leader or worship at any house of God. I just feel you should be good to people around you, your family and friends.
Gauri Khan -
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
Chris Roberson -
I don't do quagmires.
Donald Rumsfeld