David Petraeus Quotes
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
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Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
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Take three quarts of duck's milk...
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It is odd how pleasant and sympathetic her poems are, in these days when many a poet had rather walk down children like Mr. Hyde than weep over them like Swinburne, and when many a poem is gruesome occupational therapy for a poet who stays legally innocuous by means of it.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.
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My father was haunted. He was bad at conjuring small talk, he watched very little TV, because once Conscious, every commercial, every program must be strip-mined for its deeper meaning, until it lays bare its role in this sinister American plot.
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It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
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When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you.
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Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
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Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
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The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
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I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
