Karl Marlantes Quotes

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Karl Marlantes

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Ability
  • Privilege
  • Case

• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Action
  • President
  • Barack Obama

• I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  

  Zell Miller
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Know
  • Me
  • Name

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Me
  • Always

• Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Me
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Me
  • Doing
  • Page

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Wonderful People

• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Kill