Marcus Luttrell Quotes
People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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We've got a guy on the team who was 8 years old when I first got into the league.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.
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The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get
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It will be funny in about 10 years.
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People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.
