Jocko Willink Quotes
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.
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Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you're able to do it.
