R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
