Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
Valerie Plame
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
Gary Neville
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
Wadah Khanfar
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
Ralph Bakshi
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan
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I always tried to play my hunches.
Gene Tierney
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I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
Lake Bell
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As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.
Ana Navarro
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How you niggas want it? have it yo way burger king.
Lil Wayne
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The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!
Debra Granik
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Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Donald Rumsfeld