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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.
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In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.
