Kurt Johnstad Quotes
Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today
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I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.
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Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.
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Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.
