Camps Quotes - Page 29

• The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by
  Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunshine, Fire, Long

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• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

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• There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Iron, Gold

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.161

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• I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

  Kerry Bishe

  Fall, Exercise, Thinking

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• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  Olesya Rulin

  Leader, Disney Channel, Campers

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Apart' Star Olesya Rulin". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. March 5, 2012.

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• From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.

  Heather Locklear

  Marine, America, Age

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• I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Feet, People

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• I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mom, Night

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• Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

  Ben Stiller

  Years, Ideas, Fake

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

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• When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Citizens, Principles

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Mom, Kids, Preppy

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• As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.

  Fred Korematsu

  Color, Race, Government

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• I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

  Charles William Eliot

  Summer, School, Years

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• If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

  Nate Mendel

  Summer, Mother, School

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Business, Real, Army

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• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  Hani Furstenberg

  Summer, Growing Up, Nurse

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

  Amanda Bynes

  Laughing, Actresses, Serious

  "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.

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• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  Mark Burnett

  Desert, Like You, Chairs

  "Traveling with the Stars: Mark Burnett". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Parent, Independence

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wife, House, Camping

  "Jim Gaffigan: King Baby". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

  Horace Kephart

  Travel, Independent, Men

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