Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.
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Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.
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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
