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• When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

  Judy Garland

  Fire, Islands, Rainbow

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• If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

  Daymond John

  Red Flags, Stronger, Needs

  "The best advice 'Shark Tank' investors have given entrepreneurs" by Laura Woods, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2017.

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• Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic.

  Bryan Batt

  Country, Thinking, Blue

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Dad, Taken, Cat

  "Zoe Kravitz Talks ‘It Girl S**t,’ Mom Lisa Bonet" By Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Names, Red Flags, Wife

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• I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

  Eric Close

  Hate, Love Is, Thinking

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• We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, History, Honor

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Names, Ideas

  "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.

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• There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Loss, Air, Forever

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

  Brian Urlacher

  Football, Player, League

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• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, Clothes, House

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• What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Kings, War, Pride

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• The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Feet, Staff, Thousand

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• Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Humble, Guy, Hats

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• We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Views, Needs

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• Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Strong, Government, Class

  Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.

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• to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Heart, London

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Men

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• Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Men, Sight

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Passages From The French And Italian Note-Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.343, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
  But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sea, Tree, Littles

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  William McKinley

  Country, Strong, Army

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• The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

  Roseanne Barr

  Success, Winning, White

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• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Atheist, Religion, Criminals

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• It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

  Ray Lewis

  Games, Watches, Bunch

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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