David Petraeus Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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High above the lake a bomber flies.From the rowing boatsChildren look up, women, an old man. From a distanceThey appear like young starlings, their beaksWide open for food.
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Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.
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