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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldier Quotes
On duty, calling, and the people who answer it.
Being a soldier runs through these quotes as both a family inheritance and a personal calling, alongside lines about quieter forms of service that never happen on a battlefield. One speaker even extends the word to describe a spouse's daily resilience. Related: Duty quotes.
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- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
- Good Soldier
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference in being a good soldier and actor is that in the Air Force, you see results, and our worth is defined by numbers. As an actor, your results are based on other people's opinions.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israeli society's inability to tolerate even a single soldier held in captivity results in popular movements that have tremendous impact on strategic decisions made by the government. The issue has become a generator of history rather than an outcome of it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was one thing that we learned, that the Klan was making an active recruitment pitch to the armed forces - not just in Colorado Springs, but in other parts of the country as well. With trained military personnel who share that ideology, you know you have a valuable soldier at your disposal.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.
- Nov 07, 2020