Marcus Luttrell Quotes
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.
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There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
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I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
