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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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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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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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
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I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
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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.
