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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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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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've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.
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Trust me, madam. Your underwear is in good hands.
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If we are going to remove someone, which I have no problem with doing, then let's do the 20, not the 10, the very first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
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In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.
