#heir

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#before #egos #entering #good #good reason

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

#confidently #cut #decisions #flow #implemented

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#corners #help #know #make #mistakes

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#believing #day #every #every day #invest

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#foreground #got #guy #i #story

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#any #children #could #group #happens

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#combat #decides #engage #find #individual

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes