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"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
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"I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough."
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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."

"Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems."

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
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"The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know."

"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."

"I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered."

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."

"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."

"I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far."

"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."

"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
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