David Petraeus Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
Owen Paterson -
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon -
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
Ban Ki-moon -
The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
Hailee Steinfeld -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey -
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
Carli Lloyd -
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
Naima Adedapo
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
Iris Chang -
I've been engaged a couple times.
Tamron Hall -
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
Hamza Yusuf -
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
Edmund White -
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
Quentin Blake
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The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
David F. Houston -
'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
Antony Johnston -
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
Ann Coulter -
There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.
David Petraeus