Jocko Willink Quotes

It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for.

Jocko Willink

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LearnYouSituationStreetContact

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

Jeremy Paxman

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.

John Mellencamp

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If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

PeopleYouNewWantSomethingMake

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Amy Tan

BookReadingChooseWhyPersonal

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

Spike Jonze

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

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Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

Lisa Loeb

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My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Joseph Murray

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I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.

Josh Groban

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Peggy Noonan

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I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

Norman Reedus

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