Basic Training Quotes

• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Rattlesnakes, Hard Days

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• They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.

  Thomas Holcomb

  Military, Marine, Atmosphere

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• I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Training, Mind, Taught

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall (Enhanced Edition): My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Gun, Past, Training

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• Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Should Have, Childhood, Training

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.95, Broadway Books

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• I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

  Charles Bukowski

  Training, Slave, Trade

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• To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Self

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• I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Army, Training

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• I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, College, Years

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• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  Art Donovan

  Marine, Nuts, July

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• The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Order, Years

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.166, Crown

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