Donald T. Regan Quotes
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
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There's never any ability to plan a personal life.
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Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.
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We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
