We watched 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' before we went to war. It was pornography for us. They opened up this historical and psychological narrative. This is what men do when they go to war, we thought. It's a received image of war through film.


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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS
Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS
There are people that will give you time when it shines, then fade away when it shades.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Even a rock moves on.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. D...
ANTHONY ERVIN
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shar...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanti...
ANTHONY KIEDIS
There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more y...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
ANTHONY BURGESS
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Passion is the genesis of genius.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Live with passion!
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your l...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
The past does not equal the future.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension ...
ANTHONY SAMPSON
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
ANTHONY HOPE
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to ...
ANTHONY SAMPSON
Students are extraordinary teachers. They speak. They constantly tell us how our expectations, objec...
ANTHONY GREGORC
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO
I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo...
ANTHONY BURGESS
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your d...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
ANTHONY QUINN
Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they pre...
ANTHONY BURGESS
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic...
ANTHONY BURGESS
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no...
ANTHONY BURGESS
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS
Don't fear change -- embrace it.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our r...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never conce...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor...
ANTHONY ROBBINS