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.'David Petraeus
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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.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Young Jeezy -
I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
Taron Egerton -
It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers
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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.
Sam Mendes -
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.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
I always love China, especially the old China.
Manolo Blahnik -
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.
Salma Hayek -
In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
Brown Campbell -
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
Patrick Chappatte
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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.
Sam Elliott -
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.
Victor Borge -
How many saucy airs we meet,From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
Vanity -
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.
Cormac McCarthy -
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.
Ellen Key -
There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
James Comey
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
Andy Dunn -
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Paul Walker -
The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
Margot Kidder -
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.'
David Petraeus