Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.
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I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.
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I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
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I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.
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Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
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You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
