Uniforms Quotes - Page 22

• I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.

  Brittney Griner

  Games, Watches, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

  Joe Heck

  War, Mean, Men

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• The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Color, Class

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Thinking, Clothes, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

  Tim Ryan

  War, Men, Iraq

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• A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

  James Thurber

  Night, Apples, Air

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Men, Errors

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Blue, Years

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• We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.

  Adam Smith

  Organization, Ignorant, World

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• The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Athens, Deep Wounds

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

  Nick Turse

  Military, Latin, Qatar

  "The Classic Military Runaround" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, America, Glasses

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• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Home, Simple

  "Stephen Frears To Direct ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’ For HBO, Casting Underway" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2012.

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• There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sarcastic, Football, Sarcasm

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• It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Strength, Leadership, Strong

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• I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Army, Nurse

  "Tales of the South Pacific". Book by James A. Michener, 1947.

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• When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

  Mark Burnett

  Thank You, Stars, Fun

  "Dick Wolf, Mark Burnett Team for Celebrity Military Series at NBC" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 05, 2012.

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• The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

  Ryne Sandberg

  Games, League, Saws

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• The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

  George Galloway

  Self, Iraq, People

  "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.

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• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  William Farr

  Names, Perfect, Attention

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• We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

  Joe Lieberman

  Strong Women, Military, Technology

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• Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

  Adam Smith

  Wages, Economics, Masters

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.28

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

  Lewis Black

  People, Problem, Authority

  "A Lewis 'Black Christmas' With The USO". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 4, 2010.

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• I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

  John Cena

  Sneakers, Pairs, T Shirt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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