Shooter Quotes - Page 2

• I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

  Mark Twain

  Faults, Adults, Teeth

  Mark Twain (1913). “Roughing it”

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Golf, Years, Lasts

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• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  Morgan Freeman

  Names, Oregon, Eric

  "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

  Sid Meier

  Thinking, Past, Games

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• I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.

  Kobe Bryant

  Balls, Hog

  "Kobe Bryant feeling fine in Philly". Interview with Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. December 17, 2012.

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• The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

  Stephen Curry

  Way, Looks, Baskets

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.

  Anthony Bourdain

  College, Thinking, Russia

  "A Cook's Tour". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2001.

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• You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Light, Sprinkles

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.110, Pearson Education

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• Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Real, School

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• When the new gun booklet was recently mailed to all licensed shooters, 20% were returned as 'not known at this address.

  Tony Lauer

  Gun, Addresses, Known

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• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Western Culture

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

  Kevin Smith

  Inspirational, Father, Real

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• The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Religious, Simple, White

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• I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

  Joe Dumars

  Inspirational, Basketball, Thinking

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

  Charles Todd

  Years, Environment, Trouble

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

  Lights

  Games, Fans, Firsts

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

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• He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

  Doug Stanhope

  School, Awkward, Usual

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• Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Cutting, Years

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• You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

  Charlie Munger

  Wind, Rifles, Elements

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• I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Feet, Very Good

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