Squad Quotes - Page 2

• They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals.

  Philipp Lahm

  Team, Believe, Fighting

  "Bayern Munich's Philipp Lahm: 'The biggest danger for us is facing Arsenal'". Interview with Raphael Honigstein, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2014.

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• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Successful, Player

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• Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.

  David Letterman

  Country, Utah, Different

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• You could say I'm on the troubleshooting squad." "Troubleshooting?" He put a hand on the back of his waistband. "I see trouble and I shoot it.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, Trouble

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.207, Penguin

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• The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.

  Natasha Kaplinsky

  Children, Bullets, Waste

  "Kaplinsky's tears over family secret". Interview in Metro, p. 23, August 28, 2007.

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• We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

  David Gill

  Retirement, One Day, Quality

  “Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United manager after 27 years” by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

  Donald Trump

  Rights, Suffering, Legacy

  "Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Beauty, Work Out, Matter

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.19, Penguin

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• I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, what acts she should perform on which date and what she should always or never do or say or want; I eavesdrop on women in cafes while they reel off lists of which jobs a man is allowed, which cars, which labels, which flowers and restaurants and gemstones get the stamp of approval, and I want to shout, Are you people out of your tiny minds?

  Tana French

  Jobs, Flower, Blow

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• I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Style, Narrators, Film

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

  Smedley Butler

  Military, Today, Realizing

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• Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what is capitalist supposed to do with "his" factory, and how he should father "his" children and occasionally - how many Jews (or anti-Semites) should be sent to Auschwitz.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Children, Father, Marching On

  Blog post, May 09, 2008.

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• I don't see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It's kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it's not real.

  Demi Lovato

  Real, People, Normal

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

  Paul Blobel

  Men, Order, Numbers

  "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 157, 1961.

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• Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Fashion, 1980

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenage, Rocks, Years

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• The young players in the Welsh squad aren't young any more

  Ian Rush

  Player, Young, Welsh

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• I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.

  Fetty Wap

  Mean, Sleep, People

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• Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

  Robert Stephens

  Struggle, Food, Cooking

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• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Cutting, Ties

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• You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

  Mara Liasson

  Trump, Establishment, Marcos

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• When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Girl, Lakers

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

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• Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Father, Opportunity

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.31, Main Street Books

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• (In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

  Rainn Wilson

  Noir, Kind, Speak

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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