Quotes with fighters

  • We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

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  • Budd Schulberg Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Carl Sagan If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 3
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • C. D. Andrews O can't you see, brother - Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
    C. D. Andrews
     
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald traitorous creature in that society. He escaped on a smuggler's boat and toppled one of the best fighters in the world in 2013 with his obliteration of Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall. He made it look so easy, his career has never recovered.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Adolf Galland We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • George Carlin Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
    Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Al Goldstein You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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