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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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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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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I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.
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In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.
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Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
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It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.
