R. Lee Ermey Quotes
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.
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All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?
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The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
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No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
