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Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Donald Rumsfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 9, 1932

Topics

Decisions Information Flow Poor See

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Michael Gove

Children History Culture Teachers

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

Vision Things Whose Ought Cynic

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

Stephen Mangan

Great Best Thought Play Actor Being

For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Loved Turn Satisfied Nowhere Variety

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.

Sonam Kapoor

Morning Day Night Reading Help Only

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

Shura

Science Light White Skin Watching

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer

Nature Thinking Spirit Outside Force

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God Details Christmas

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Louis C. K.

People Me You Same Give Me Give

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

Birthday Time Myself Present Living

My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.

Arjun Kapoor

Love Social Media Media Heritage Who

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.

Nouriel Roubini

Education Health Government People