Robert M. Gates Quotes

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

Robert M. Gates

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ChangeTimePeopleEnoughYouDown

There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

Melvin Van Peebles

TechnologyYou Can Do ItMediocrity

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

Max von Sydow

ActorDirector

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

John Zorn

MusicMeSomeoneDoingGoRun

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

Sophie Hannah

PeopleTryingYouRelationships

The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.

Sia

MeLovedDogsNourishBeingDoes

I'm sauteing asparagus, Brussels sprouts,broccoli, some boneless, skinless chicken breast, some halibut. That's about it; that's all I'm allowed. That's what's legal for me to saute.

Ron Funches

MeLegalChickenSomeAsparagus

I do believe in one true love.

Michelle Dockery

LoveTrue LoveBelieveTrue

It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.

Luis Alberto Urrea

ImmigrationBodyIllegal Immigration

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Janine Benyus

LifeSmartEnergyProblemsChemistry

I believe you have to make things happen.

Clemence Poesy

BelieveYouThings HappenI Believe

I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG?

Allison Schroeder

DarknessWordsAmazingThinkGoWhy

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

Susan Cain

TimeYourselfFeelYouLoseWrong

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