Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
