Chesty Puller Quotes
In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It's real hard to draw on something to write.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.
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There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
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The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.
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In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.
