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David Petraeus Quotes

Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the Right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Right China Gone Only Been Would

For dinner, I'll grill chicken with asparagus and call it a day.

Jessie James Decker

Day Dinner Chicken Call Grill

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

Life Rules Realistic Pretend Simply

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.

Thought Down Kind Never Write Line

People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world.

People World You Go Contribution

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

People Looking Why Lord Common Made

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

Life Time Space Someone Long Never

I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes.

Good Shoes Basketball Watching Very

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

World Doing Look Shoulders Guys

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

Attitude Death Rest Key End Go

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.

Mary Steenburgen

Family Children Me Say More Role

Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs.

Words People Me Name Weird Stronger

My writers on 'Liv And Maddie' have started a running joke to try and sneak as many 'literally's into the script as they can to throw me.

Me Try Joke Started Throw Many

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