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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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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Netflix is something I watch.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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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.
