Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
