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've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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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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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.
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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.
