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.
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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.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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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.
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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.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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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.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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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.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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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.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
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Each subsociety of mind must have its own internal epistemology and phenomenology, with most details private, not only from the central processes, but from one another.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
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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.
