Marine Quotes - Page 17

• I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

  Gillian Anderson

  Sharks, May, Scared

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

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• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Father, Book

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• My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Girl, Mom, Parent

  "Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Animal

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• We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

  Lionel Barber

  Stars, Europe, Looks

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.

  Brian Reade

  Average, Long, Leader

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Would Be, Netherlands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

  Robbie Lawler

  Brother, Dad, Iowa

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Memorial Day, Military, Gun

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• The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Islands, Iwo Jima

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Men, Years

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• The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

  Gregory Alan Williams

  Believe, Goal, Taught

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• A Marine is never intimidated.

  Tom Monaghan

  Marine Corps, Intimidated

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• I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

  Steve McQueen

  Discipline, Levels, Able

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• I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

  Robert Smith

  Marine Corps, Relation, Captives

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Korea, West

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• If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

  Brian McDermott

  Adversity, Achievement, Royal

  "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole.

  George Carlin

  Navy, Holes

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• The marines gave me an eternal discipline.

  Huey Morgan

  Discipline, Eternal

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Judgement, Royal, Aggression

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

  Margaret Thatcher

  News, Force, Rejoice

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life.

  Sam Hamill

  Couple, Teenage, Reading

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.

  Terry Gross

  Morning, Children, Dad

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• I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

  Robbie Lawler

  Dad, Culture, Littles

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Feelings, Soldier

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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