David Petraeus Quotes
The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I don't care about revenues.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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On the second Michael Jackson trial, speaking on 'Larry King Live,' CNN, Feb. 21, 2003: 'But I'm telling you, this boy, two-thirds of this can be corroborated by other people. So why would he lie about the molestation part? It is in graphic detail. It just seems true... I think Michael Jackson walks. And I think it's a disgrace. He's guilty.'
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.
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I've chosen jobs that were sexy because I wanted to do them.
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Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
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Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.
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The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.
