Nancy Kassebaum Quotes
My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
