Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
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A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
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Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.
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As my heart comes undone, somewhere in the loss and the horror is the overdue liberty of relief.
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People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.
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I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
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I wasn't the best frogman out there.
