David Petraeus Quotes
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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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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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I love Costco.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
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I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
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Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
