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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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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You have no control over the market. You can't predict where it will go, and you can't bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand - an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.
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I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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.
