Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
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The wide receiver position is such a complex position.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.
