David Petraeus Quotes
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
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Disgusting, ridiculous, when other people did it.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.
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When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
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This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
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I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.
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Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
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The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.
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I managed to fit most of the writing to evenings and weekends, and my wife has been very supportive.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.
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He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
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I often sketched by moonlight in the 1890's - cows resting or standing immovable in flat Dutch meadows, or houses with dead, blank windows. I never painted these things romantically, but from the very beginning I was always a realist.
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I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
