David Petraeus Quotes
Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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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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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
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I expect there will be more virtual schools.
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NYU was my comfort zone.
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I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.
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Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.
