David Petraeus Quotes
The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is the considerable number of ethnic groups, religious sects, tribes, and other elements that make up the province.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.
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An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
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Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
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The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is the considerable number of ethnic groups, religious sects, tribes, and other elements that make up the province.
