Marine Quotes - Page 13

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  Adam Driver

  Responsibility, People, Training

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• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Cities, Community

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• The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

  James F. Amos

  America, Today, Force

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• Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

  Johnny Cash

  War, Drinking, Answers

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• They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

  Tom Lehrer

  Doubt, Politics, When In Doubt

  Song: Send the Marines

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• When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

  Josh Mandel

  Islands, Paris, South Carolina

  "Glenn interviews Marco Rubio and Josh Mandel". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Hostage Crisis, Presidential

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• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  Ralph Peters

  War, Tanks, Killing

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Bahamas, Santa Cruz

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Research, Santa

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Iraq, America

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

  Jim Lehrer

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• I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

  RJ Mitte

  Military, Air, Navy

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Military, War, Mistake

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• O Eternal Father, we commend to Thy protection and care the members of the Marine Corps. Guide and direct them in the defense of our country and in the maintenance of justice among nations. Protect them in the hour of danger. Grant that wherever they serve they may be loyal to their high traditions and that at all times they may put their trust in Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

  Henry Knox Sherrill

  Country, Jesus, Father

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• In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Determination

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• My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.

  Jonathan Raban

  Sky, Cities, Weather

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Thinking, America

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• Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
  Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.

  Archie Carr

  Determination, Turtles, Sea

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• I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.

  Archie Carr

  Writing, Turtles, Sea

  Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”

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• I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Military, Gun, Iraq

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  Art Donovan

  Nuts, July, Crow

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• In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

  Chris Kyle

  Mother, Fighting, Bad Ass

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• I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Google, Buckminster Fuller

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.

  Tommy Chong

  Smell, Creative, Actors

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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