Paula Broadwell Quotes
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. I'm preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.
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Team competition is my priority.
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Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.
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If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.
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A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.
