spent bullet

spent bullet
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那天在看 Lord of War 突然觉得其实在我们这个世界美好的一面的同时.也有另外一个星球的存在.
看了 Lord of War 我在网站上找到其中一些很精彩的台词...


There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every 12 people on the planet. The only question is...how do we arm the other 11?

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The first time you sell a gun is a lot like the first time you have sex. You have absolutely no idea what you're doing. But it is exciting, and one way or another, it's over way too fast.
　　
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Here, I'd been running away from violence my whole life, and I should have been running towards it. It's in our nature. The earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their ribcages.
　　
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　　-- What, you opening a gun shop?
　　-- Already more of those in America than McDonald's.

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Sir, sir, may I interest you in the shoulder-fired SA-7 surface-to-air missile? It's the older Chinese model. Not so effective against modern military aircraft, but deadly if used against a commercial airliner.

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Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

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I supplied every army but the Salvation Army. I sold Israeli-made Uzis to Muslims. I sold communist-made bullets to fascists. I even shipped cargo to Afghanistan when they were fighting my fellow Soviets. I never sold to Osama bin Laden. Not on any moral grounds. Back then he was always bouncing checks.

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　　-- I don't think you're going just to sell Pepsi-Cola. Is this how you want to be remembered?
　　-- I don't want to be remembered at all. If I'm being remembered it means I'm dead.
　　
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Since the end of the Cold War the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar and suicidal novelists.
　　
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In the most AIDS infested region of the globe, where one in four is infected, Andre's idea of a joke was to put a young Iman and a young Naomi in my bed and no condom within 100 miles.

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　　-- Hello, Mr. Yuri.
　　-- Hi.
　　-- We'd be happy to make you happy.
　　-- Uh...I can't. I'd love to, but I can't.
　　-- Don't worry. We don't have anything.
　　-- Oh. How do you know?
　　-- Do we look like it?
　　-- What if I have AlDS? Don't you worry?
　　-- You worry too much.
　　-- Why do you worry about something that can kill you in 10 years when there's so many things that can kill you today?

P.S. 那个非洲模特确实很漂亮,也彻底改变我对黑人的印象.

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How many car salesmen talk about their work, huh? How many cigarette salesmen? Both their products kill more people every year than mine. At least mine has a safety switch.

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Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigious assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenals. You'd think that more critical to world security, but it's not. No, nine out of 10 war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms like yours. Those nuclear missiles, they sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that is the real weapon of mass destruction.
　　
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Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names Liberation-this, Patriotic-that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other. I guess they can't own up to what they usually are -- Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom fighters.

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Let me tell you what's gonna happen. This way you can prepare yourself. Okay. Soon there's gonna be a knock on that door and you will be called outside. In the hall there will be a man who outranks you. First, he'll compliment you on the fine job you've done, that you're making the world a safer place, that you're to receive a commendation and a promotion. And then he's going to tell you that I am to be released. You're going to protest. You'll probably threaten to resign. But in the end I will be released. The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of those men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss, the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year... sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So... you call me evil. But unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil.
　
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You know who's going to inherit the Earth? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other.

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WHILE PRIVATE GUNRUNNERS CONTINUE TO THRIVE. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ARMS SUPPLIERS ARE THE U.S., U.K., RUSSIA, FRANCE AND CHINA. THEY ARE ALSO THE FIVE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL.