David Petraeus Quotes
When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.
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I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.
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Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.
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Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
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There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
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When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
