Nathaniel Fick Quotes
I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.
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I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
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I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.
