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.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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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.
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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?
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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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.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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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.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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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.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I always start a painting with the sky.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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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.
