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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
Forest Whitaker / Actor
Conflict
Down The Road
Alternative
Participate
Soldiers
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If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.
John Knoll /
Movie
Army
Cheaper
Computer
Difficult
Epic
Expensive
Scale
Seen
Difficult Thing
Graphics
Shoot
Pictures
Soldiers
Techniques
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
Gary Rossington /
Army
Bases
Long Hair
Navy
Reputation
Everything Else
Originally
Our Music
Overshadowed
Soldiers
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
Damien Chazelle /
Army
Band
Feels
Improvisation
Individual
Interesting
Jazz
Military
Art Form
General
Big Band
Big Part
Interesting Thing
Soldiers
Spirits
Such A Big Part
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When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I'd think, 'Hang on'. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Pushing
Your Mind People
Bar
Hang
Jews
Make Up
Palestinians
Soldiers
Wonderful People
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With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the States, where wives of soldiers don't quite understand what their husbands have been through, because their husbands won't really talk about it, and that's really the hidden war.
Tim Hetherington / Photojournalist
Fundamental
Hidden
Husbands
Soldiers
Wives
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I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come... so we don't see any reason to change our view of history.
Angela Merkel / Chancellor Of Germany
Civilisation
Convinced
Generations
Firmly
Handed
Soldiers
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
Lynsey Addario / Photojournalist
Approach
Blow
Fire
Gamble
Guarding
Hostile
Journalist
Zone
Neutral
Open
Checkpoint
Identify
Observer
Options
Second
Soldiers
War Zone
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I did this whole series on the buffalo soldiers-on black soldiers-I did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery system, and all these people with these massive collections didn't know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a niche I didn't know was there.
Ed Dwight /
Buffalo
Collections
Gallery
Hitting
Massive
Niche
Series
Myself Black People
Cowboys
Ended
Presented
Soldiers
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If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Candidacy
Former
Meetings
Multiple
Presidency
War Believe I Believe
David
Cheney
Commander
Deployed
Dick Cheney
Discuss
Nomination
Soldiers
Theaters
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In combat operations in places like Afghanistan, we often confronted the specter of dangerous people with powerful weapons who were a threat to their community and to our soldiers. Our aim was to quickly determine who in that community was a legitimate actor who could be trusted with a firearm and who was not.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Aim
Combat
Determine
Operations
Trusted
Weapons
Confronted
Specter
Soldiers
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It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.
Anne Wojcicki / Biologist
Disease
According
Athletes
Centers
Each Year
Injuries
Million People
Professional Athletes
Soldiers
Sustain
Traumatic
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Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.
Lynsey Addario / Photojournalist
Adrenaline
Conflict
Thrive
American Soldiers
Cover
Front Line
Sending
Soldiers
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.
Matthew Desmond /
Depression
Certain
Connected
Groups
Instance
Poverty
Violence
Understand
Accept
Acts
Face
Pretty
Full
Hard Look
Soldiers
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I've gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we're going to see if we can't bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
Ron White / Stand-Up Comedian
Friends
Women
Brave
Comedian
Honor
Men And Women
Musical
Privilege
Men Women Money
Back
Brave Men
Bring
Close
Consider
Women Money Men
Few
Gathered
Give
However
Incredibly
Laughs
Lift
Raise
Sacrifices
Soldiers
Spirits
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Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.
Jody Williams / Political Activist
Aftermath
Just One
Legacy
Long Term
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Indiscriminate
Weapon
Recognized
Soldiers
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Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
Scott Anderson / Novelist
Dividends
Drivers
Father
Haughty
Notorious
Paid
Selling
Soldier
Vegetables
Anybody
Border
Existed
Guards
Ladies
Smiles
Soldiers
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I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.
Wesley Clark / Political Figure
Armed Forces
Drivers
Logistics
Troops
Armed
Battles
Time People Win
Entire Time
Forces
Generals
Mechanics
Rear
Soldiers
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And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
John R. Allen /
Relationship
Afghan
Difficult
Difficult Situations
Engagement
Operations
Police
Real
Real Relationship
Serving
Single
Soldier
Troops
Across
Conduct
Defines
Every Single Day
Single Day
Situations
Soldiers
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
Pat Barker / Writer
Facial
Finished
Perception
Portraits
Reconstruction
Conflicts
Sequel
Soldiers
Unresolved
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
Oriana Fallaci / Journalist
War
Block
Commit
Enemy
Powder
Suicide
Troops
World War Ii
War World People
War Always World
Considered
Arrival
Citadel
Disliked
Japanese
Soldiers
Torch
World War
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Administration
America
Barack
Country
Crisis
Favour
Haitian
Idiocy
Listeners
People
Gain
Rush
Soldiers
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
Rick Atkinson / Author
Army
Debate
Green
Impassioned
Prime Minister
Soldier
Spring
Strategic
Argued
Attack
Churchill
Germans
Italians
Minister
Soldiers
Winston
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
Carl Paladino / Businessman
Kids
Zero
War
Died
Entitled
Little Bit
Memories
Poor
Poor People
Thousand
Wars
Ground
Memory
Soldiers
Wives
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We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.
John F. Kelly /
Airmen
America
Coast
Earth
Force
God Freedom Believe
Greatest
Away
Bestow
Lived
Nearly
Gift
Gave
Greatest Gift
Guarantee
Marines
Precious
Safeguard
Soldiers
Steal
While
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In Iraq, State Department civilians and U.S. soldiers have been operating in the same location in an active war zone. While the troops have been facing insurgents, the State Department civilians have been working to rebuild institutions and infrastructure. Blackwater's role in this war evolved from this unprecedented dynamic.
Erik Prince /
Civilians
Department
Infrastructure
Location
Troops
Unprecedented
Zone
Dynamic
Evolved
Facing
Operating
Rebuild
Soldiers
State Department
War Zone
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I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Wise
Abandon
Brave
Faithful
Gettysburg
Vietnam
Comrades
Examples
Lee
Robert
Soldiers
Steal
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It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
David Bailey / Photographer
Anarchy
Composition
Mad
Military
Objects
Relate
Statues
Your Me Feel
African
Lots
Drive
Cleaner
Drives
Rearrange
Soldiers
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There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.
Jonathan Powell /
Battle
British
Cold
Decision
Ministers
Right Thing
Sweat
Wake Up
Politicians
Prime Ministers
Send
Soldiers
The Right Thing
Wake
Worrying
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We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.
Grover Norquist /
Accomplish
Afghanistan
Conversation
Cost
Footprint
Size
Spending
Look Country America
Occupy
Safer
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
Walter Dean Myers / Writer
War
Banned
Bloody
Conflict
Depiction
Iraq
Lessons
Military
Negative
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Wounded
Effect
Guards
Lessons Learned
Photographing
Soldiers
Specifically
Stacked
Thus
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The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
David Simon / Author
Affirmative
Bureaucrats
Cosmic
Feet
Games
Human Progress
Instruments
Journalism
Leader
Policy
Political Leaders
Rational
Adult
Useful
Game
Becomes
Coherent
Foot
Leaders
Soldiers
Suggestion
Viable
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When I decided to crop what was left of my hair, I thought, 'It's all over. I'm never going to work again: it's basket weaving me for me from now on.' But what actually happens is your casting changes: you suddenly start to get a lot of villains and coppers and soldiers and even the odd sensitive vicar - you become institutionalised.
Mark Strong / Film Actor
Casting
Odd
Sensitive
Weaving
Work Start Your
Basket
Work Me Start
Crop
Work Happens Your
Soldiers
Vicar
Villains
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When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.
Forest Whitaker / Actor
Camps
Former
Liberated
Recruitment
Currently
Boys And Girls
Ending
Held
Soldiers
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I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Army
British
Conflict
Ira
Prepared
Relation
Rise Above
Titles
Above
Rise
Elizabeth
Head
Queen
Member
Represents
Soldiers
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Of all the places I've been while talking to audiences about the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group and their story in Afghanistan, one of the most rewarding was an appearance before the 5th Group soldiers themselves at Ft. Campbell, their home, and the place from which they had launched their historic mission in Afghanistan in 2001.
Doug Stanton / Author
Afghanistan
Appearance
Army
Historic
Special
Special Forces
Audiences
Campbell
Forces
Group
Mission
Places
Rewarding
Soldiers
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The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
Tecumseh / Tribal Chief
Common
Destroyed
Forever
Owners
Race
Strong
Usurpation
White
I Am Long People
Arm
Backed
English
Borne
Stopped
Long I Am People
Grievous
Head
Inflicted
Rightful
Soldiers
Warriors
Wiped
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Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Adopted
Blood
Congress
Good Times
Honor
Worst
Affections
Cheerfully
Commands
Earliest
Entirely
Executed
Service
Shall
Smiling
Soldiers
Whose
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As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
Drew Gilpin Faust / Historian
Celebration
Civil War
Emphasis
Older Brother
Time War Always
Brothers
Civil
Confederacy
Grant
Insisted
Lee
Passed
Quite Some Time
Soldiers
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The Black Watch is one of the most illustrious regiments. They've been at the vanguard of British military operations for 400 years. Something they're very proud of is what they call 'The Golden Thread,' where you can trace a line back from them to the first Black Watch soldiers who were from the Highlands, spoke Gaelic, and wore the kilt.
John Tiffany /
Gaelic
Golden
Military Operations
Operations
Thread
Vanguard
Illustrious
Soldiers
Spoke
Trace
Wore
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My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
Daniel Lubetzky /
Concentration
Holocaust
Liberated
Positively
Spite
American Soldiers
Risked
Soldiers
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It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Army
Stairs
Masse
Occasion
Recall
Searching
Soldiers
Traumatic
Youngest
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I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield.
David Petraeus / Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Capability
Determination
Expertise
Finest
Men And Women
Partners
Courage Men Women
American Soldiers
Armed
Battlefield
Coalition
Comrades
Fellow
Courage Women Men
Valued
Rank
Soldiers
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I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.
Gil Scott-Heron / Poet
Afterlife
Babies
Disappearing
Soldiers
Speculate
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Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent in ballots that helped ensure President Abraham Lincoln's reelection, the preservation of the union and the abolition of slavery. Mailed votes leave a paper trail that renders them less, not more, susceptible to fraud.
George T. Conway Iii /
Abolition
Ballots
Election
Fraud
Mail
Paper
Preservation
Susceptible
Less
Leave
Ensure
Helped
Lincoln
Union
Sent
Soldiers
Trail
Venerable
Votes
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