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Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be. -- Chelsea Manning
And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food. -- Sandra Oh
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! -- R. Lee Ermey
When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit. -- Douglas Brinkley
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. -- Shelby Foote
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks. -- Peter Ustinov
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -- Mark McKinnon
It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. -- Mel Torme
If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. -- Gerry Adams
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks. -- Karl Kraus
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? -- Michel Foucault
To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers... -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up. -- John Kasich
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks. -- James G. Stavridis
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee

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