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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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
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What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
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Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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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.'