David Petraeus Quotes
The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.
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Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes.
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
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We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.
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The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.
