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Robert M. Gates Quotes

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Robert M. Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Alone Experience Think Soviet

Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.

Jerry Greenfield

Day People World Doing Trying See

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.

Mother Me House Find Hip-Hop Rock

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Robert M. Gates

Intelligence Building Partner Early

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

Robert Griffin III

Job Hands I Can Go Build Belief

I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.

Music Courage Myself Me Sick Body

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Mercy Otis Warren

Ambition Prey Turn Mankind Been

I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

Life Daughter Parents Rest Think

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

Motto New Shut Up Up Giants Deal

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

Me Down London Cope Sort Winters

I'm more dramatic than other people are, or I just show it more. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have a lot of passion.

Passion People Think Wrong More

Where do I get my information from? Well, I get it from the radio, and I get it from the newspaper, and then I get it from my conversations, and I get it from the paddocks around the bush. I get it; it turns up. You'd be most surprised how it turns up.

You Information Newspaper Radio Up

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

Loudon Wainwright III

Father Direction Go Want Actor Up

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