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The sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
Army
Military
Sergeants
Sergeant
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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
Alex Berenson / Reporter
Broken
Law
Military
Numbers
Sergeant
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
Al Stewart / Singer-Songwriter
Hendrix
Loud
Peppers
Real
Sergeant
Pepper
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin / Writer
Backgrounds
Distinguished
Military
Background
Sergeant
Wholly
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My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
Clint Eastwood / Actor
Admirer
First World War
War Dad World
Sergeant
First World
World War
York
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Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
Jo Cox /
Extremism
Sergeant
Nurtured
Recruiting
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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Coquetry
Coquette
Victim
Sergeant
Lookout
Recruiting
Victims
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For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Army
Macho
Sergeant
Feminists
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My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin / Model
Connecticut
Father
Mother
Police
Sergeant
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Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.
Rex Ryan / American Football Head Coach
Sergeant
Master
Served
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I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.
Theresa May / British Politician
Granddaughter
Sergeant
Vicar
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My dad was the toughest man I've ever known in my life. He intimidated me. he was my Master Sergeant.
Bart Starr / Football Player
Intimidated
Life Dad Man
Sergeant
Master
Toughest
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Words can't express how humbled I am in being given the privilege to portray Gunnery Sergeant Basilone!
Jon Seda /
Privilege
Sergeant
Humbled
Express
Portray
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If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.
Brett Favre / Football Player
Football
Football Coach
Thinking
Would Be
Sergeant
Coach
Drill
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I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.
Chip Gaines /
Elements
Sergeant
Drill
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If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.
Richard Belzer / Stand-Up Comedian
Holmes
Sergeant
Detective
Falls
John
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Surely
Survive
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My father - who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I've even known - next to him, Coach Lombardi was a piece of cake.
Bart Starr / Football Player
Cake
Sergeant
Master
Toughest
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We had a master sergeant present us with the Bronze Star of Valor he had gotten because he had felt we were the eighth men of the platoon.
David Draiman / Songwriter
Bronze
Valor
Sergeant
Star
Eighth
Master
Gotten
Present
Platoon
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If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Armed
Sergeant
Forces
Rank
Similar
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When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.
Jen Lancaster / Author
Sergeant
Drill
Expects
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise / Author
Daughter
Congress
Distinguished
Lawyer
Mother
Philadelphia
Years
Sergeant
John
Northern
Representative
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Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel.
Niki Tsongas /
Armor
Safety
Sergeant
Colonel
Reduced
Soldiers
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You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Afternoon
Friday
Left
School
Squad
Years
Sergeant
Drill
School Back Know
Major
Regular
Um
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The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.
Tim O'brien / Novelist
Guilt
Human Life
Ice
Infantry
Little Kid
Loops
Middle Aged
One Thing
Sorrow
Tracing
Little
Writer
Sergeant
Blade
Human
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I'm sort of an optimist, a high energy type of enthusiastic guy. Someone that tries to be genuine with the players, I'm not a guy that's going to come in and be a drill sergeant.
Frank Vogel / Coach
Enthusiastic
Genuine
High Energy
Optimist
Sergeant
Drill
Tries
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I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
Rick Wagoner /
Brazil
Great Idea
Great World Rest
Sergeant
Ignore
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My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth / British Politician
Armed Forces
Officers
Heroes
Armed
Sergeant
Forces
Rank
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Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.
Nicole Scherzinger / Recording Artist
Sergeant
Back Up
Love Business Myself
Drill
Right Back
To Love
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My best match, draw me lot of money and make me world famous, is the boot-camp match with the Sergeant Slaughter. He was hottest thing in the wrestling, and when Iron Sheik come we make the world news.
The Iron Sheik / Professional Wrestler
Hottest
Iron
Slaughter
Sergeant
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My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon / Writer
Character
Father
Mentality
Trying
Sergeant
Better Always Me
Drill
Father Me Better
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My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.
Ro James /
Imagine
Intense
Military
Preacher
Radical
Sergeant
Christians
Drill
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William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Army
Football Coach
Method
Profound
Life Great Football
Sergeant
Coach
Drill
William
Motivating
Oswald
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Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'
Steve Schmidt / Strategist
Association
Average
Congress
Illegal
Latino
Sergeant
Respond
Immigrant
Major
Member
Opposed
Professor
Surgeon
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The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Doors
Gentleman
Headquarters
Pride
Son
Treats
Sergeant
Always Me I Am
Obey
Orders
Regularly
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Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.
Amy Klobuchar / United States Senator
Arms
Exciting Things
Gallery
Order
Outburst
Scary
Sound
Sergeant
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When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.
Tim Finchem /
Dad
Determined
Marine
Marine Corps
Paper
Sergeant
Corps
Deliver
Hurricane
Route
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I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sounds pretty simple, but it's really about data.
Joseph Dunford /
Data
Deployment
Time Me Simple
Sergeant
Commander
Platoon
Same Time
Sounds
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That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.
Ron Stallworth /
Retired
Retirement
Sergeant
Bosses
Rank
Refused
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When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That's what he grew up around; that's what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That's what I took, and that's what I want on my football team.
Rex Ryan / American Football Head Coach
Football
Sergeant
Master
Football Players
Looked
Took
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In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
Kevin Barry / Writer
Kids
Car
Cities
Stealing
Teenager
Sergeant
Assigned
Courthouse
Cub
Detective
Reporter
Minor
Newspaper
Nineties
Offender
Relatively
Pit
Pointed
Press
Whispered
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
Hanna Rosin / Author
Classic
Instruments
Marine
Philosophical
Sadistic
Turns
Sergeant
Grand
Grinding
Jacket
Metal
Themes
War Movies
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