Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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Fashion is one big family.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.
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Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
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It can't be pretty without being ugly first.
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I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
