David Petraeus Quotes

I really started to get a sense of how, if you will, special Zarqawi was, I guess, sort of midway through 2004.

David Petraeus

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• We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

  

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• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

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• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

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• I got lost but look what I found.

  

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• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  

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• If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.

  

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• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  

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• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  

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• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

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• MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

  

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• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

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• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

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• Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

  

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• 'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.

  

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• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

  

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• This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  

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• Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  

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• I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.

  

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• Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

  

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• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

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• I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

  

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• I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

  

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• I really started to get a sense of how, if you will, special Zarqawi was, I guess, sort of midway through 2004.

  

  David Petraeus