Anthem Quotes - Page 6

• I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fists, Raises, Turns

  "Former Minnesota Gov. Ventura Miffed by Courts, Says He's Off to Mexico". www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2011.

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• in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Night, Skeletons, Skins

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• 'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.

  Carrie Underwood

  Baby, Children, Blue

  "Carrie Underwood: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 09, 2009.

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• On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Italian, Flags, Fields

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• Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

  John Fowles

  Angel, Clouds, Glasses

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• The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

  Johnny Carson

  Cat, Singing, Closest

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• When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first.

  George Carlin

  Song, Philosophy, Worry

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• I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

  Robert Klein

  Country, School, People

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• You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Mind, Might

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• I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

  Jeff Britting

  Stories, Mediums

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• 'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Grateful, People

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 2006.

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• I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Home, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

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• As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

  Matt Redman

  Earth, Holiness, Faces

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• I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  School, Men, Russia

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• If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Artistic, Forget

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Labels, Flags, Speech

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.5, Random House

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• New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Yankees

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• All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Men

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• And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

  John Milton

  Religious, Eye, Blow

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157

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• Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

  Joe Dempsie

  Darkness, Faces, Ordinary

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

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• I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, School, Brave New World

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• Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Joy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Liberty, Temples

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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