Uniforms Quotes - Page 23

• I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.

  Erykah Badu

  Night, Blue, Pants

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• A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Taken, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I try to mix the fashion with the music and what's going on at the time...at the time [when my uniform was black on black] I was putting together an album, my album was my name at the time; very minimal, very stripped down, very everything but it still had and have to have some level of pop.

  Pusha T

  Fashion, Names, Black

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Doors, Comedy

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

  David McCullough

  War, Character, Men

  Interview, www.bookreporter.com. June 2005.

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• Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Dog, Gun, Leader

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• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  Naomi Campbell

  Girl, School, One Day

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Men, Us Veterans

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• Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Believe, Men

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• The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Husband, Gun, Power

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

  John O. Brennan

  Military, Borders, Arms

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

  John D. Barrow

  Stars, Space, Sea

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books

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• I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

  Elle Fanning

  Clothes, Glasses, Doors

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• My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Safety Pins, Stylist, Covered

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• The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

  W. Clement Stone

  Law, Lines, Matter

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• I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Makeup, Hair, Max

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• History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, War, Army

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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Jobs, War, Fall

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Sea, Long

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

  Arthur Eddington

  Body, Lines, States

  Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1933). “The nature of the physical world”

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• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Forever, Shortcuts

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• I remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for Wells Fargo, so I had my gun and hat, which weighed me down in the heat. It was 97 degrees here in New York, and they had to turn the air conditioner off because it was too loud. So, I say, "Damn, it's hot in here!" That's how we came up with the song, "Damn, It's Hot." It was from our soul. We just got together, sang and made our own lyrics.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, New York, Gun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people."

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, Thinking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Guy, Chloe

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• It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Two, Age, Half

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