Marine Quotes - Page 15

• My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

  Robbie Lawler

  Brother, Dad, Iowa

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.

  Renee Montagne

  Couple, Past, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.

  Annalee Newitz

  Ocean, Thinking, Mass Extinction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Llamas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

  Gillian Anderson

  Sharks, May, Scared

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

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• In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Army, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Trying, Drones

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

  James Mattis

  Years, United States, General James Mattis

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Military, African American

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is a terrible year [2015] in a lot of ways. You have Paris. You have San Bernardino. But there was, if you remember the summer, there was that attempted terror attack on the train in France. There were two U.S. Marines, there`s one other guy. They were three guys who got up and who stopped that attack. Nobody died. They are heroes and they are my people of the year, three of them.

  Steve Kornacki

  Summer, Hero, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

  Tim Winton

  Growing, May, Safe

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe a right winger might knock off Merkel in Germany, and you'd have this sort of, essentially, a nationalist populist alliance that can only be made sense of when seen as a right-wing, white nationalism against the world. Because, who do they want to fight? They want to fight Asia and China, they want to fight Latin America and Mexico.

  Van Jones

  Latin, Fighting, Wings

  Source: pen.org

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• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  Adam Driver

  Team, Knowing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Eye, Fire, Perspective

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• Moammar Gadhafi is the man that killed those Americans over Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi is also the man that bombed that cafe in Berlin and killed those Marines. And you want to know why Moammar Gadhafi started cooperating on his nuclear program? Because we got rid of Saddam Hussein. And so he got scared that he would be next, and that's why he started cooperating.

  Marco Rubio

  Men, Scotland, Would Be

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.

  John Kasich

  Lebanon, Involvement

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

  Dean Koontz

  Coral Reefs, Way, Next

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, War, Mad

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• Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

  Daniel Benjamin

  Army, Tomorrow, Conflict

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• This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

  Brian Stann

  War, Fighting, Way

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• We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

  Daniel Pauly

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Daniel Pauly (2010). “5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems”, p.45, Island Press

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• We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

  Thomas McGuane

  Taken, Lakes, Sea

  Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

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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

  America, Age, Troops

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• If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

  Rebecca West

  Peace, Taken, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.442, Open Road Media

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