Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

We're so conditioned as a people to think that a military campaign has to be cruise missiles and television images of airplanes dropping bombs, and that's just false. This is a totally different war. We need a new vocabulary. We need to get rid of old think and start thinking about this thing the way it really is.

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Man
  • Law
  • Couple

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • May
  • Past

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Experience
  • History
  • Democracy

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Sweater

• Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Wind
  • Britain
  • Import

• It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.

  

  Jesse Watters
  • World

• People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

  

  Jayson Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Church

• There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.

  

  Neko Case
  • People

• We're so conditioned as a people to think that a military campaign has to be cruise missiles and television images of airplanes dropping bombs, and that's just false. This is a totally different war. We need a new vocabulary. We need to get rid of old think and start thinking about this thing the way it really is.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
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  • Thinking