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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But love's a malady without a cure.
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Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
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I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'
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I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
