Soldier Quotes - Page 27

• There is a Greco-Buddhist school of architecture and sculpture that you find everywhere in the world. It's fascinating, because Alexander died in 323 B.C. and Buddha existed around 500 B.C. But Alexander met Buddhist-type sages. And they had a different view of the world, as you know. They saw it in circular terms. They didn't need to conquer any land. And there are blond people who live in that region who are said to be descended from the soldiers who stayed. He left garrisons all over the world as he went.

  Oliver Stone

  School, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like patriotism. They're fighting for the people standing next to them, and it doesn't matter who's a Republican or a Democrat, or who's black or white or Christian or Muslim or gay or straight. If Congress and all Americans could manage to ignore those differences, we would have a perfect country, but somehow we cannot rise to that level of nobility.

  Sebastian Junger

  Christian, Country, Military

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

  Georg Baselitz

  Army, Artist, Individual

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• We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.

  Andrew Mango

  People, Feelings, Human Rights

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Sound, Band

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

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• You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?

  Joe Arpaio

  Fighting, Cells, Iraq

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• I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, Humorous, Cocky

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• For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Purpose, Kind, Individual

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Exercise, Iraq, House

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• Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

  John Boehner

  Inspiring, America, Spending Time

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• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

  John Boehner

  Cities, Rockets, Force

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• A true woman always loves a real soldier.

  Belle Boyd

  Real, True Woman, Real Soldiers

  Belle Boyd (1998). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.77, LSU Press

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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Thinking, White, Southern

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• I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

  Geraldine Brooks

  War, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

  Mel Brooks

  Couple, War, Lasts

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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, Dollars, Flags

  "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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• I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

  Hugo Chavez

  Baseball, Dream, Country

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Hero, Warrior, Doe

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• No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

  Hillary Clinton

  Courage, War, Fighting

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• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  Gail Collins

  Military, Enough, Needed

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• Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Practice, Captains

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

  Roald Dahl

  Flames, Bravery, Shots

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• There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Grateful, Actresses, Film

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• No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, Feet, Criticism

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• God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

  Elizabeth I

  Bravery, Scary, Crowns

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