Chris Kyle Quotes
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Make way for the positive day.
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Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ.
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
