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I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.
Tyrese Gibson
Life
My Life
Military
Never
Boxed
Been
Up
Anyone
Grew
Base
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
Val Kilmer
Service
Strange
Leader
Military
Group
Secret
Able
Something
Like
Supposed
Up
Really
Act
Each
Each One
Set
When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
Valerie Plame
Work
Me
You
Political
Whatever
Military
Moral
Would
Moral Compass
Diplomat
Democrat
American
Personal
Political Views
Republican
Might
Your
Views
Describe
Compass
Serve
Serving
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
Varg Vikernes
Property
Vote
Wife
Military
Rank
Citizens
Only
Allowed
Male
Office
Native
Children
Elected
Should
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
Vin Scully
Me
Business
Military
Philosopher
Guru
General
Only
Author
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.
Vladimir Putin
War
Military
Cold
Cold War
Our
States
Clash
Direct
Civilians
Between
Most
Always
Years
Intense
Soviet
Any
Soviet Union
Confrontation
Certainly
Avoided
Union
Even
United
United States
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.
Vladimir Putin
Independence
Military
Our
Security
Russia
Might
Military police is very timely for our army.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Army
Police
Military
Our
Very
Timely
Military Police
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
W. Averell Harriman
War
Needs
Military
Immediate
Abandon
Possible
Civilian
Facilities
Had
Period
Well
Trade
Get
Influence
Convert
Much
Requirements
Used
Manufacturing
Export
Including
British
At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
Wally Schirra
Military
Our
Had
No-One
NASA
End
Place
Us
Careers
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
World
Military
Virtues
Valor
Out
Impact
Beats
Missionary
Meanness
Hard
Conquest
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
Walter Cronkite
War
Government
People
Young
Military
Like
Know
Permit
Governments
Sending
Young People
Declare
Should
Engage
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
Walter Dean Myers
War
Picture
Young
Military
Think
Society
Soldiers
Easier
Only
Tendency
Combat
Makes
Roles
Commit
Them
Large
Extent
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn
School
Year
Military
Summers
One Or Two
Small
Developed
Part-Time
Well
Instruments
Canadian
Which
Planes
Worked
Electrical
Company
Two
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
Wang Jianlin
Family
Strong
Military
Soldier
Background
Born
Chose
The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
Warren Rudman
Food
Law
Better
Community
Military
Enough
Immediately
Those
Law And Order
Could
Had
Had Enough
Almost
Major
Force
Make
Sure
Been
Get
Order
Centers
Places
Helicopters
Military Force
Population
Things
Number
Two
Under Obama, we have seen the U.S. military - the most exceptional force for peace in the world - degraded, downsized, decimated and demeaned, resulting in massive international instability and potential threats to our homeland.
Wayne LaPierre
Peace
World
Seen
Military
Our
Obama
Degraded
Threats
Potential
Resulting
Exceptional
Instability
Most
Massive
Force
International
Homeland
What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
Wesley Clark
Gossip
Military
Starts
Stays
Learned
Forever
Early
The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
Wesley Clark
Military
Russia
Up
Either
Them
Means
Stand
Stand Up
Helped
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.
Whitney Tilson
Government
Best
Corruption
World
National
Military
Rampant
Our
Unlike
Once
Plenty
Systems
Parks
Never
Countries
Always
Judicial
Been
Effective
Efficient
National Parks
Improvement
Quite
Where
While
Room
Bribe
Actually
When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell
Me
Sometimes
School
Band
Club
Military
Out
Memphis
Only
Weekends
Take
Had
Road
Still
Came
Were
Middle
Middle School
Bar
Them
Using
Started
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
William Hague
Wise
Military
Think
Launch
Attack
Israel
Iran
Moment
Thing
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
War
Crushed
Military
United Nations
Definitely
Strive
Must
Total
Total War
Toward
Ultimately
Germany
Effort
Nations
War Effort
Japan
Might
Urgently
United
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.
William McDonough
Solar
Power
Military
Our
Focused
Collectors
Steam
Could
Generate
Renewable
How
Am
Covered
Very
Get
Done
Going
Deployment
Electricity
Military Bases
Thermal
Large-Scale
Bases
Imagine
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
William Odom
Love
Become
Fall
Military
Other
Meet
Admiration
Mutual
Tend
Countries
Sort
Officers
Expense
Different
Different Countries
Realities
Each
Societies
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
William Odom
Me
You
Heart
Trust
Control
Military
Strikes
Say
System
Some
Case
Russian
General
Unrealistic
Bottom
Most
Because
Command
His
Now
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