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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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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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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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
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O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
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I'm really only responsible for my own actions.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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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.
