David Petraeus Quotes
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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Over the hills and far away.
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My business is making people, especially children, happy.
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Not that this appears to affect the intentions of the political-bureaucratic elite, which in Britain as elsewhere in Europe believes that it has an overriding mission to achieve European integration by hook or by crook and which is convinced that History (with an extra-large 'H') is on its side.
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The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
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I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
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I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.
