Marcus Luttrell Quotes
I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I never lie to my fans.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
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I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
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I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'
