I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.
Cecile Richards
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Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.
Sarah West
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When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
James A. Michener
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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S Truman
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I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
Daniel Woodrell
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
Patricia Schroeder
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
Adam Driver
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In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
John C. Calhoun
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
John Masefield
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
Stuart Symington
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I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.
Tom Catena
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I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.
Jason Robards
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What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
Douglas Brinkley
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I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
Chris Pratt
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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
Bob Feller
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One trend I always go for is nautical: stripes, navy, rope knot belts, gold buckles.
Poppy Delevingne
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I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
Sean Connery
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I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.
Ryan Zinke
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When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton
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I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.
Eric Massa
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Dave Van Ronk
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Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
Buzz Aldrin
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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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