David Petraeus Quotes
As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties.

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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.
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What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?
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As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties.