Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
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.
-
The bad boy: always more fun.
-
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
-
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.
-
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
-
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
-
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
-
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
-
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
-
When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
-
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.
-
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
-
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.
-
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
-
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
-
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
-
Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.
-
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
