Eric Greitens Quotes
I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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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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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
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The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
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No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.
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Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
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I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
