Combat Quotes - Page 18

• Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

  Mark Dayton

  Real, Challenges, Soldier

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• The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

  Charles Frazier

  Past, Thinking, Stronger

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• I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

  Danai Gurira

  Fighting, Play, Nyu

  "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

  Isla Fisher

  Sports, Horse, Skills

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

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• I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

  Josh Gad

  Mother, Powerful, Sadness

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• Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Creating, America

  "Obama urges climate action" by Elana Schor, www.politico.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

  Mark McGrath

  Boxing, Fans, Strategy

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

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• My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Fists, Way, Walks

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

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• You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

  John Romero

  Design, Different, Firsts

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Afar

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Psychics, People

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.

  Mark Udall

  Hunting, Gun, Self

  "Sens. Mark Udall, Michael Bennet Call For Stricter Gun Control Laws". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  Larry Wilcox

  Lessons, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Understanding, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.79, Criss Jami

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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Thinking

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  Gabriel Macht

  Jeans, Guy, Boots

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

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• I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

  Sonequa Martin

  Fighting, College, Training

  "Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

  Dick Cavett

  Fall, Different, Imagine

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• Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

  Walid Muallem

  Effort, Terrorism, Syria

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• Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

  Rorion Gracie

  Victory, Jiu Jitsu, Serious

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• One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

  Paul Keating

  Tire, Stills, Knows

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Sports, Military, Fighting

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