Flags Quotes - Page 26

• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Giving, Done, Speech

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• Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Business, Somewhere Else

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

  Claire Danes

  Memories, Lines, I've Learned

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• I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

  Jonathan Davis

  Play, Trying, Band

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• There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

  Beth Ditto

  Rainbow, Band, Triangles

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

  Smedley Butler

  America, Soldier, Dollars

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying 'yes' too frequently.

  James Grant

  Weed, Red Flags, Growth

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• United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

  Thomas Campbell

  Stars, Mean, Two

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.340, Ardent Media

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• The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

  Thomas Campbell

  Peace, Stars, Night

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.151

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• Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh... and everybody's high!

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Army, Brave New World

  "2000 Presidential Election: Bush vs. Gore" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. November 5, 2014.

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• That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Loyalty, Today, Objects

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  Hugh Evans

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Rebel, Challenging The Status Quo

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

  Hugh Jackman

  Intense Training, Minutes, Training

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• Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

  Yann Martel

  July, Names, Water

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

  George R. R. Martin

  Looks, Ships, Lists

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

  Steven Morrissey

  Royal, England, Royal Family

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• He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. 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, Twilight, Honor

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• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Doe, Patriot

  “Eats Roadkill, Speaks Danish” by Amy Wallace, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2006.

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• We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Perseverance, Teacher, Fear

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.143, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

  William Shatner

  Approval, Mark, Audience

  "It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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• Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Red Flags, Annoyed

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Encounters, Alive

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• It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Wonder, Crosses

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.193, Harper Collins

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