David Petraeus Quotes
You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled 'Moved South for the Fishing' sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing.
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
