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Robert M. Gates Quotes

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

Robert M. Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Point Context Comment Been Made

Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.

Johan Cruyff

Quality Results Boring Without

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

Solomon Burke

Integrity Yourself You Class Mud

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

Steven Berkoff

Class More Dishonesty Working Middle

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.

Robert Carlyle

Great Theatre Small Think Doing

I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.

Ron Williams

People Think Someone Enough System

How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.

Mike Posner

Funny Song Someone Know Fame Singer

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

Michelle Ryan

Theatre Friends Play Go Niece Out

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

Mindy Sterling

Me Care Feel You Know My Own

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great Free Problems View Problem

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

Play Always Little Big Used Like

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

Donald Hall

War Poetry Excitement Rare Harvard

There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.

Coy Bowles

Best Think You Look Career Way