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David Petraeus Quotes

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1952

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I Am Done Old Reason Afghanistan He

I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

Look Entertainment Competitor Spotify

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Love Time Keep Going Fire Me Back

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

Old United United States Pakistan

Our ambition isn't just to be big, it's to be listened to and supported by people. And to have the success - if we deserve it, of course.

Success People Ambition Deserve Big

To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

Work Love Live You Desire Way

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Money Down Toys Big Toy Been

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Condoleezza Rice

Freedom Power Balance War Support

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

Education Challenge Support People

I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

Work Character Game Believe I Can

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Parents People Blame Think I Think

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.

Work Writing Excitement Mean First

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Peter Diamandis

Two Years Average Where Population

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