This box is full of stuff that almost killed me.
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Contractor Team Leader: We have a flat tire. Can you help us?Staff Sergeant William James: Sure, yeah. You got any spares?Contractor Team Leader: Well, we have spares, but we used up our wrench.Staff Sergeant William James: How do you use up a wrench?Contractor Team Leader: Well, the, uh... , the guy over there with the red thing on his head, he threw it at someone.Staff Sergeant William James: All right.Contractor Team Leader: Thank you.Contractor Team Leader: This Chris. This is the wrench man.Staff Sergeant William James: Hello, Wrench Man.Contractor Team Leader: That's Jimmy.Sergeant JT Sanborn: You know you can shoot people here. You don't have to throw a wrench.Contractor Feisal: Fuck off!
Staff Sergeant William James: [to Iraqi street kid] I'm gonna buy another DVD, okay? But... if it's shaky - look at me - or out of focus, or any way not 100%, I'm gonna chop off your goddamn head with a dull knife. How do you feel about... I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.Staff Sergeant William James: Here. You're a good kid.Staff Sergeant William James: You're a good kid, aren't ya?
You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your mommy, your daddy, your nature pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore, you know? Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal, but the older you get, the fewer things you really love, and by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.