David Petraeus Quotes
All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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A soundbite never buttered any parsnips.
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Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
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Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
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I don't always understand my worth.
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I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.
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All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.
