Robert M. Gates Quotes

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

Robert M. Gates

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I AmChoiceWillMoreAlwaysJust

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Jimmy Cliff

New BeginningBeginningPeopleMeOK

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

John Cusack

MyselfMeAmericanIrishRaised

I think Coutinho's a great team player with a huge amount of talent. He can use both feet. He scores goals. He links play well and gets between the lines in attack.

Andres Iniesta

GoalsGreatTalentTeamFeetThink

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Ann Voskamp

LifeLiveSurviveDareThroughNumb

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

LifeNatureFlowerPoetryExample

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Steven Johnson

MemoriesChildhoodChildWorldLook

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

Tom Sizemore

ActingSeriouslyPointUpTakeJust

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

Ruth Reichl

CharacterTodayDayWritingThinking

I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built.

Mike Schultz

WinningSummerSilverGamesUpLeg

As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'

Deborah Ann Woll

RedMeHairBlondePushYou

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Brendan Myers

GodTrueAcceptSpiritMatterSeems

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Aubrey de Grey

WisdomResearchThinkOutsideBox

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