David Petraeus Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
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If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I never starved myself.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
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You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something. “Who says I wear panties?” I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.
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I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost personal freedom simply for being intellectuals. So I spent most of my childhood rotating between adopted families of peasants and coalminers.
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Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.
