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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."
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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."
"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."
"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
"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."
"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."
"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
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