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 started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.
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An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
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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.
