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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For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
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I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
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I wasn't the best frogman out there.
