Stripes Quotes - Page 5

• The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.

  Peter York

  White, People, Chocolate

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• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  Ali Velshi

  Real, Struggle, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

  Greta Gerwig

  Actors, Reviews, Feels

  "'Indie Darling' Greta Gerwig, Making A Bigger Splash". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 10, 2012.

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• I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

  Art Buchwald

  Marine, Unhappy, Credit

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Navy, May

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• I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

  Ivan Reitman

  Juicy, Today, Performances

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• Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

  Will Self

  Political, Conviction, Britain

  "Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2013.

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• You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Thinking, California

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17,2009.

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Empathy, Culture

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• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

  Patrick Collison

  Couple, Years, Overnight Success

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• When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

  Mark Burnett

  Thank You, Stars, Fun

  "Dick Wolf, Mark Burnett Team for Celebrity Military Series at NBC" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
  The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
  The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
  Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
  By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?

  RZA

  Stars, Rap, Fighting

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• A leapord never changes his stripes.

  Al Gore

  Stupidity, Never Change

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• Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Couple, Fun, Years

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  Idris Elba

  Actors, Want, Yeah

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• And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

  Michael Phelps

  Stars, Block, Home

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• I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

  Ivan Reitman

  Animal, House, Proud

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• What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing.

  Philip Ball

  Thinking, Patterns, Able

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• So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.

  Lamar Trotti

  Stars, Fighting, Circles

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• Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

  Joe Barton

  Stars, Hero, Sacrifice

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Civil War, Enemy

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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