R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
