Sean Connery Quotes
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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I'm glad I was in the Navy.
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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.
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My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.
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It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.
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Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
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I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.
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The Navy is very old and very wise.
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Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
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There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
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There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.
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Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
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It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match.
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Scotland's voice has to be heard
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The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.
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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.
