Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
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I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.
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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. … humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
