Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
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One must always keep one's government under control.
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Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles.
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Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
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I was very skinny. You know when your knees don't even look like they're attached to your body? Kids at school called me 'Snap,' like my legs were about to snap because they were so thin.
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To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.
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When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
