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“Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Marine #Discipline #Marine Life
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“The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#News #Motivated #Instructors
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“I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Never Good Enough #Enough #Good Enough
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“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Mistake #Believe #Past
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“Try as you may, you can never defy love.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#True Love #Trying #May
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“Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Real #Guy #Watches
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“There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Crowds #Whiners
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“For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Military #Iraq #Honor
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“I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Hate #Less Is More #I Hate
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“Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Tools #Intimidation #Instructors
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“There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Get Better #Administration #Facts
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“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#War #People #Trying
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“In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Order #Tables #Needs
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“I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Guy #Hospitality #Speak
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“I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Marine #San Diego #Recruit
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“I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Iraq #Trying #Afghanistan
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“America's trying to do the best for its veterans.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#America #Trying #Veteran
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“Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Marine #Training #Vietnam
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“Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Fifteen #Hours #Seven
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“It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Uncles #Conviction #Uncle Sam
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“Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#America #Vietnam #Veteran
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“I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Role Models #People #Roles
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“That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
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“The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Boots #Rave #Boot Camp
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“I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Scum #Canada #Bags
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“Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Communication #Vietnam
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“Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Inspirational #Funny #Graduation
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“What is your major malfunction?”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Malfunction
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“Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Film
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“Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.”
-- R. Lee Ermey
#Crazy #Let Me Go #Let Me
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