Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.
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If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
