Camps Quotes

• Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

  Mel Gibson

  Interesting, Flying, Use

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• To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Party, Warrior, Race

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• In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Summer, Song, Religious

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• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Winning, Finding The One, Risk

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• We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

  Tom Berenger

  Workout, Military, Work Out

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• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Ernst Zundel

  Friends, Years, People

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• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  Oriana Fallaci

  War, Believe, Soul

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• Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Thinking, Feet

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• When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

  Daniel Clowes

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Garden, Done, Littles

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• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Harold Ramis

  Summer, Country, Military

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Soup, Lucky

  "Collier's", Volume 115, p. 156, Crowell-Collier Publishing Compan, 1945.

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Friends, Jobs, Together

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• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Moon, White, Friendly

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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• Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

  Buffalo Bill

  Country, Writing, Men

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

  Charles Guggenheim

  Tunnels, Slave Labor, Digging

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

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• We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Heaven, Camping

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.61

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• The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

  Susan Sarandon

  Kids, Years, Twenties

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

  Lauren Bush

  Cousin, Eight, Office

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• I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

  Kylie Minogue

  Dance Music, I Can

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• I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

  Charlie Sheen

  Funny, Rehab, Saws

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Coaching, Events

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  Larry Hovis

  Concentration, Concentration Camp, Pow

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