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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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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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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I don't think that the Democrats are doing anything right. They certainly haven't delivered on the promise of creating more jobs for Latinos. They have not delivered on the promise of bringing immigration reform up to the forefront. They had a sitting president; they had both houses of Congress. They could have done something, but they did nothing.
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The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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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.
