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.
Earl Weaver -
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.
Nas -
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.
Harold H. Greene -
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei -
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.'
Ed Speleers -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Samuel Beckett -
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.
Igor Stravinsky -
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Adam Hochschild -
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.
Olly Murs
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
Oliver Tambo -
I love Costco.
Gary Johnson -
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
Ferran Adria -
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.
Randeep Hooda -
I write about true-life type things.
Karen Kingsbury -
We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
Vijay Sethupathi
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Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.
Mario Gabelli -
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy -
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Jeff Bridges -
Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
Dan Quinn -
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
David Petraeus