Secretary Quotes - Page 9

• I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

  Luke Perry

  School, Gun, Fake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

  Jennie Garth

  Teacher, School, Waitress

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Party, Hair

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• The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

  William Shawcross

  Powerful, Errors, America

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• Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

  William Shawcross

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, House, Littles

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

  Robert M. Gates

  Defense, Arguing, States

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• My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

  Eva Herzigova

  Mother, Father, Uranium Mining

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• My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Party, Grandmother, People

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• My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

  Patsy Kensit

  Christian, Stars, Dior

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values" by Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

  John F. Kerry

  President, United States, Bakers

  John Kerry's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

  Vijay Mallya

  Morning, Guy, Want

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• I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Gold, Use, Cotton

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• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

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• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

  Sally Quinn

  Thinking, White, People

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• The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  People, Messages, Burden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

  Brian Sandoval

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stars, Rocks, Years

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• I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

  Stuart Symington

  Responsibility, Cutting, Years

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• I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

  Trent Lott

  Thinking, Fans, Enough

  'Hardball with Chris Matthews', www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2004.

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• As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, United States, Defense

  "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. May 9, 2004.

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• Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mma, Two, White

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Phones, Worst Person, People

  "Pop Quiz: Bruce Dickinson of Iron". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2006.

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• Barack Obama is putting his team together to take over the Administration. So far, he's got his mother-in-law, who is going to be living with him, and they are talking about Hillary for Secretary of State. You have your mother-in-law and Hillary Clinton. Sounds like smooth sailing to me.

  David Letterman

  Mother, Team, Talking

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