Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Quotes to Explore
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
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I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
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Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
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I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
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I don't really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
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I welcome it because I asked at the very outset of this for a court of inquiry to bring disinterested fact-finders to bear upon these questions.
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In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.
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The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.
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Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
