Pirate Quotes - Page 8

• One thing I hear from fans is, 'My Dad's got one foot in the grave, and he wants to see the Pirates win ' I've heard that more than anything. That's our goal.

  Clint Hurdle

  Dad, Winning, Feet

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Teenager, Science, Boys

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for todays gamers.

  Sid Meier

  Games, People, Goal

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. June 12, 2004.

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• What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Creative

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  Orlando Bloom

  Moving, Play, Guy

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  Abigail Breslin

  Fans, Caribbean, Huge

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• Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

  Elton John

  Baby, Men, Blue

  Song: Tiny Dancer

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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, Marine, Thinking

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• The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Age, Horizon

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Moving, Heart, Adventure

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mother, Father, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.32, Routledge

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• They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Gentleman, Trying, Half

  "Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics". Book by Robert William Seton-Watson, 1935.

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• The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.

  Peter Earle

  Practice, Yield, Toledo

  Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

  Charles Stross

  Book, Thinking, Age

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Mom, Lonely, Son

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Cowboy, Play

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• You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Handsome, Ships, Common

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Home

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• I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancer, Pittsburgh, Wanted

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

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• May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates.

  Jackie Chan

  War, May

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• I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Valleys, Proud, Gates

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• There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Mean, Night

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• I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  Zosia Mamet

  Play, Bed, Would Be

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• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

  Richard Adams

  Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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