David Petraeus Quotes
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.
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They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which men and monsters swam or battled, and then swiftly erased it. Such ideas did not conform with the quiet behavior of his companions; if they never spoke about outside, did they think about it?
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Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.
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The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.
