Robert Wilkie Quotes

When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

Robert Wilkie

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Interesting
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Up
  • Road
  • Walk

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Script

• If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Journey

• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Know
  • Details
  • Relevant

• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Ambition

• The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Theatre

• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Crush

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

  

  Saint Stephen
  • Financial
  • Matters
  • Finance

• If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Proud

• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Angry

• Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Military

• I cannot speak your england.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • England

• When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

  

  Robert Wilkie
  • Language
  • Military
  • Speak