Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
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You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
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Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.
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It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
