David Petraeus Quotes
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I am a normal guy.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
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In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.
