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William H. McRaven Quotes

SEALs aren't the only heroes out there. Everyone who puts on a uniform meets that threshold.

William H. McRaven

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: November 6, 1955

Topics

Uniform Heroes Everyone Out Only

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

War Country Innocent Go Become

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

Ocean Vacation Feel Down Place More

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

Love Direction New Know Kind Out

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Civilization Existence Prospect Large

It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop's popularity equals racial unity.

Unity Christian Dangerous Hip-Hop Us

If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

People Me You Find Privacy Want

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

Myself Me Think You Be Nice Nice

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.

Best End Treasure Sight More Here

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Amazing Brain Loved You Go Studying

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Denis Villeneuve

People Ideas Ego Direction Better

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Christopher Monckton

Courage Nothing Global Warming Right

I want the world's data accessible.

World Data Want Accessible

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