Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.Donald Rumsfeld
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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.
Jacki Weaver -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
Vicky Hartzler -
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Natalie Massenet -
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Aaron Lazar
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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.
Warren Moon -
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.
M. K. Hobson -
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.
Camilla Belle -
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?
T. S. Eliot -
(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
Ragnar Frisch -
Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.
Jack McDevitt
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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.
Anna Sui -
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly -
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin -
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Leland Ryken -
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
James Gleick -
I don't really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.
Ella Woodward
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
David Suzuki -
Noah's daughter is different from the girls of 'Suburgatory.' She goes to Brown, so she's in college, and she's very smart. And his wife is very much a very strong woman. She's certainly in charge at his house. She's Dallas's polar opposite.
Alan Tudyk -
It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.
Max Cannon -
De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
Pierre Beaumarchais -
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld