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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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.
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I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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I don't have life rage anymore.
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Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
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In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.
