Camouflage Quotes

• Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

  Peter Thomas

  Inspirational, People, Gears

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• Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Art, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Camouflage is a game we all like to play

  Russell Lynes

  Play, Games

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

  Russell Lynes

  Games, Play, Secret

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Opposites

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Demetri Martin", 2004), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

  Andrew Vachss

  Weakness, Predator, Hunts

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Sacrifice”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

  Edith Head

  Believe, Magic, Doe

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

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• Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

  David M. Shoup

  History, Remember, Hours

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Shade, Sun

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.323, Vintage

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• Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Comedy

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

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• Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

  Smokey Robinson

  Hurt, Sadness, Pride

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• I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Trousers

  "Tommy Cooper: the best quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2014.

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• That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Insecure, Perfect, Insecurity

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• If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Cat, Survival, Tools

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• Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

  Andrew Vachss

  Guy, Helping, Willing

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.255, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Order, Flaws

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• Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

  Ramana Maharshi

  Acquisition, Faculty, Realisation

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pain, Hair, Mourning

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, War, Battle

  Louis Althusser, Gregory Elliott (1990). “Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays”, Verso Books

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• The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Character, Order, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Simple, Next

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• For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

  Ernst Junger

  Spiritual, Transition, Littles

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• Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Self, Worry, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

  Warren Farrell

  Teaching, Men, Blame

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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