R. Lee Ermey Quotes
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I have always loathed working out.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I am a just man.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Spin class is the best for your core!
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
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Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.
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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
