David Petraeus Quotes
I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
Quotes to Explore
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
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Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. (Hays translation)
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In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.
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I don't want to stir up a can of worms.
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The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.
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I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'
