David Petraeus Quotes
The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted - and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
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The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted - and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.
