Karl Marlantes Quotes

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

Karl Marlantes

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• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Long
  • Government
  • Foreign Policy

• With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fun

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Weakness
  • Confession

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Country
  • Year

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Excellence
  • Perfection
  • Days

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Hope
  • Picture
  • Purple

• It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try