Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
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I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
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Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
