R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.
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A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
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It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
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My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
