Warrior Quotes - Page 16

• Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

  Hal Rothman

  Vegas, Culture, Epitome

  Hal Rothman, Virgil Hancock (2003). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century”, p.322, Psychology Press

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• I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

  Audre Lorde

  Casualties

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

  Antonio Banderas

  Hero, Careers, People

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

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• I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Evil, And Love

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• Today Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess.

  Jay Leno

  Princess, Today, Schwarzenegger

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• In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.

  Misty Upham

  Hero, Native American, Play

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• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Greatness, Earthquakes, Done

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• Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Knights, Shining

  Speech nominating James G. Blaine for president, Republican National Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 15 June 1876

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• Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Self

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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• My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

  David Walton

  Hockey, Smell, Wife

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• I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

  Michael Ian Black

  Character, Opportunity, Dwarves

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

  Joan Lunden

  Wisdom, Giving, Holding On

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Excellent, Violent

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• Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

  Laozi

  Feet, Taoism, Guests

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• I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Giving Up, Looks, Movement

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• Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

  Terri Irwin

  Fighting, Wildlife, Killing

  Terri Irwin (2012). “My Steve”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Dream, Ancient

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• A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Stay Strong, Storm, Samurai

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, D. E. Tarver (2002). “The Hagakure: Yamamoto Tsunetomo”, p.21, iUniverse

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• All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.

  John Kremer

  Real, Book, Creating

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• I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.

  Ronda Rousey

  Art, Night, Years

  "Ronda Rousey, UFC Fighter, On Trash Talking, The Olympics And Her Warrior-Paleo Diet" by Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Buddhism, Accomplishment, Dancing

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Humility, Pride

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• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Soldier, Sentimental

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.304, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

  Georg Brandes

  Brother, Real, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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