David Petraeus Quotes
I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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How many saucy airs we meet,From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
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And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'
