Uniforms Quotes - Page 10

• If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Lakers, Obnoxious

  "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Mean, Police, Way

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.

  Nicholas Samstag

  Uncles, Military, Patriotic

  Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated

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• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Peter DeFazio

  War, Men, Tyrants

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• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Years, Might

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• For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

  Francis Ponge

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  Francis Ponge, Beth Archer Brombert (1972). “The voice of things”

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• When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Crazy, Sweaters

  "The Provocateur: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Suzanne Weinstock, www.elle.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  Salmon P. Chase

  United States, Occupation, Fit

  "Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 13, 1869.

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• Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Cutting, Simple, Luxury

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• Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

  Jack O'Neill

  Doe, Colonels

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• I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

  Max Cannon

  Military, Effort, Style

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• You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.

  Arthur Frommer

  America, Mind, Looks

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• I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

  Mike Redmond

  Giving, Bob, Firsts

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• I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.

  Clint Black

  Men, America, Support You

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• Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

  Henry Adams

  Law, Bishops, Unbroken

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.222, Booklassic

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• I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Europe, Important

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.

  Joan Jett

  Country, Differences, Gone

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

  Tom Rooney

  Uncles, War, School

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

  Larry David

  Love, Country, Freedom

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• The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Games, Fans, Pouring

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• If I had to give advice about parents, it would be this: Value your relationships with them. Those relationships are what you stand for. Not only are we blessed to wear a uniform that says PHILLIES on the front, but we have our names on the back. That name means you're playing for your family.

  Jim Thome

  Blessed, Mean, Names

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• In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

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