Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
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We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.
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There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that 'A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,' the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to sign up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
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What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.
