David Petraeus Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
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We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell.
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
