Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
Quotes to Explore
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn't have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you - that's just as amazing.
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There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
