Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Donald Rumsfeld

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• There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

  

  Aaron Koblin
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• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
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• Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
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• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

  

  Hans Bender
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• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
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• I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

  

  Dakota Goyo
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• We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?

  

  Demi Lovato
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• In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.

  

  Arthur Eddington
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• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
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  • Truth

• Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

  

  Eric Church
  • Music

• Customer service is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate type of activity.

  

  Leon Gorman
  • Service

• I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Work

• I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and Islamic civilizations have more in common than apart. It was a German scholar, C. H. Becker, who said a long time ago that the real dividing line is not between Islam and Christendom; it's the dividing line East of Islam, between the Islamic and Christian worlds together on the one hand and the rest of the world on the other. I think there is a lot of truth in that.

  

  Bernard Lewis
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  • Christian
  • Civilizations

• If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld