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David Petraeus Quotes

No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business World Now Privilege Degree

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

Music Doing Numbers Squad Reason

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Song American Appreciated Beatles

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero, maybe ever, because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it's puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way.

Homework Doing Talking Go Way Human

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.

Change Justice Media Social Justice

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Broken Think Timing Lizard I Think

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother Girl Children People Soup

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

Christopher Columbus

Day Greatness Sail Gold Small Said

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

Choice Happens Pro

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

Life Think Care Weird Nobody Should

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

William H. Seward

Me Free Others Slave Seems Southern

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

Great Interesting Always Well About

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

Today Gracious Guy Still He Very

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