R. Lee Ermey Quotes

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

R. Lee Ermey

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

  

  T-Pain
  • Hate
  • TV
  • Britney Spears

• I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Hate
  • Door
  • Doing

• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Know
  • Hate

• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Hate
  • Bunch

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Evil

• I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Doing

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Hate

• I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Distance

• To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

  

  Jason Robards
  • True
  • Author

• I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Great
  • Why

• Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Work

• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  

  James Allen
  • Beautiful

• Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Hate
  • Jackets
  • Drill Sergeant