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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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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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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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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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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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
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Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
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In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
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Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.
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Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
