Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
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The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.
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... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
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I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
