David Petraeus Quotes
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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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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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
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My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
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Until you prove yourself, modeling the behavior of iconoclasts is dangerous.
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The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.
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We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
