Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.
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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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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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I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
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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'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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I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.
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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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I love Boston.
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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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I'm not a hero.
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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 wasn't the best frogman out there.
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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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When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.
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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'm basically all titanium.
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I knew, at a very young age, that I was supposed to be a gunfighter.
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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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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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It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
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If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
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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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One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.