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Robert M. Gates Quotes

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Robert M. Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1943

Topics

Crazy Book Reading Smoking Weekend

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

Progress Death Three Successful Just

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

Stephen Cambone

Position Being Going Been Able

I love wraps and shawls.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Man College Go New Garbage Jersey

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

Think View Television Netflix Become

Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix.

Home Two Entertaining Measured Knows

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

People You Down Enemy Know Matter

I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

Christine Woods

Energy Feedback Know Anything Take

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

Colson Whitehead

Today End Talking You Race Write

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

Life Morning Day Wake Up Choose

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Love Blessing Ugly People Growing Up

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

William J. Mayo

Life Medicine Physician Aim Need

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