David Petraeus Quotes
Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
Quotes to Explore
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Being evil is easy.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you're tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
