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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There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
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Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits.
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I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.
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I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.
