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The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

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Richard Armitage
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 26
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Richard Lee Armitage
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Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!
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I value my ability to keep state secrets.
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Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.
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You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.
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I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.
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You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.
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I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
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I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.
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Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.
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I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
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I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. I have a whole new appreciation of soldiers. I saw myself on screen and thought, 'That body is so not hard enough to be a soldier.'
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I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.
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Well, the United States has said that the disarmament of Iraq is the top priority, but we have also noted that there are many other United Nations Security Council Resolutions which are on the books, including the necessity to respect the human rights of all the citizens of Iraq that we're very interested in.
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I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
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I'm the only honest person in Washington.
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Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.
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I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.
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A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
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According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.
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