Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.
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I knew, at a very young age, that I was supposed to be a gunfighter.
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In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.
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It's not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you're saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD - that's not how that works.
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To have people with - with psychological problems have a background check before they can buy a weapon? I don't think the NRA would pull me off that one. If they do, then I need to be pulled off it because... you can't give a weapon to someone who has mental issues, right.
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I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.
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I'm not a hero.
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I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.
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War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.
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When I came into the Perry family, it was just kind of one of those deals where they were the only family I had.
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I'm basically all titanium.
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It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
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Don't waste one second on anything. Watch the sun come up, and watch it go down.
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When they were working on the movie 'Lone Survivor,' all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.
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I wasn't the best frogman out there.
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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.
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I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?
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Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.
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Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.
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One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.
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There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.
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The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.
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When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
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I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'