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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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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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.
