John Abizaid Quotes
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Focus on what you have.
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I build engines and attach wheels to them.
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My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
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But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
