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  • It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

    Country   Army   People  
  • In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things.

    War   Army   Government  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

    Army   Want   Pizza  
  • I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

    Jobs   Army   Thinking  
  • Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

    Army   Order   Law  
    Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
  • I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

    Old School   Army   Gay  
    Source: www.bilerico.com
  • So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

    Army   College   Years  
  • My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.

    Father   Believe   Army  
    "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. November 7, 1995.
  • We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

  • There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really there's no such thing as "too far." You're joining the politically correct when you use words like "too far." You don't want to join the army of politically correct.

    Stupid   Army   Joining  
    "Mel Brooks Remembers the Funniest Movie He Ever Made". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2014.
  • I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

    Stupid   Army   Thinking  
  • I thought to myself, "Join the army!" It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

    Army   Stripes   Pounds  
    "Fictional character: Dewey Oxburger (Ox)". "Stripes", www.imdb.com. June 26, 1981.
  • I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

    Country   Jobs   Military  
    Barney Frank's Statement on the Inclusion of people who are Transgender in Antidiscrimination Protection Legislation, March 2008.
  • Join the army and see the next world.

    Army   Cynical   World  
    Dylan Thomas (2014). “Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters”, p.787, Hachette UK
  • Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

    Army   Years   Pay  
    "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
  • If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

    Stupid   Army   Fighting  
  • I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

    Army   Thinking   Rights  
    "Barney’s Great Adventure" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2009.
  • As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  • The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

    Army   Men   Boys  
    Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”
  • Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

    Fighting   Gay   Army  
  • It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

    2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
  • The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.

    "What Etgar Keret Learned From His Father About Storytelling And Survival". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.
  • When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

    Home   Army   Remembrance  
  • So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

    Running   War   Army  
  • I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.

    Religious   Army   Years  
  • I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

    War   Kids   Army  
    Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

    War   Army   World  
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