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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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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Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
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The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what end? The barriers sink one by one, and no covering of the eyes shuts out the landscape of disaster, nor the sight of crimes committed there.
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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.'
