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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If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.
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You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.
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In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.
