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 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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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
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I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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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.
