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  • Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood. -- Rick Riordan
  • Camp is always all business. -- Michael Strahan
  • There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. -- Louis Sachar
  • Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. -- Susan Sontag
  • I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin. -- David Wain
  • I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?! -- Rick Riordan
  • Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. -- Craig Thompson
  • Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I`m the son of Poseidon. I`m from Camp Half-Blood. -- Rick Riordan
  • Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much. -- Susan Sontag
  • One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp. -- Matt Labash
  • Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things. -- Susan Ford
  • The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty. -- George Hamilton
  • I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. -- Neil Diamond
  • Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. -- Craig Shirley
  • Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it. -- Peter King
  • From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left. -- James Lileks
  • Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it. -- Peter King
  • 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. -- Susan Sontag
  • Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. -- Susan Sontag
  • Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs. -- Stefanie Powers
  • Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out. -- Sander Levin
  • A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval. -- Sadao Araki
  • I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it. -- Jared Gilman
  • I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot. -- Anthony Wayne
  • I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids. -- Dane Cook
  • The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA. -- Annie Jacobsen
  • As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp. -- Dan Jenkins
  • Camp Taylor is a foundation that I'm connected with right now, and anything I can do to help them and help those kids is something I want to do. -- Colin Kaepernick
  • At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. -- William Cameron Forbes
  • Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. -- John Muir
  • War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. -- Oriana Fallaci
  • You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. -- Richard Engel
  • At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. -- Elliott Abrams
  • From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had. -- Heather Locklear
  • The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. -- Susan Sontag
  • No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. -- Jon Ronson
  • No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history. -- Neymar
  • In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day. -- Lawrence Bender
  • So, great. This is Camp"¦what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?" Aphros frowned. "I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________." He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses. -- Rick Riordan
  • I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me. -- Lauren Bush
  • I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school. -- Melissa Rauch
  • Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.' -- Christine Pelosi
  • You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea. -- Rob Halford
  • In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. -- Mark Burnett
  • Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation. -- Anna Kendrick
  • 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation. -- Anna Kendrick
  • Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is. -- Jon Stewart
  • I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too. -- Chad Urmston
  • I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home. -- Rick Riordan
  • I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team. -- Nate Robinson
  • The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader... -- Rick Riordan
  • Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture. -- Susan Sontag
  • Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter. -- Mel Gibson
  • For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp. -- Simon Sinek
  • Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards. -- Susan Sontag
  • The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. -- Philip Emeagwali
  • After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. -- Jack Adams
  • If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. -- Tony Abbott
  • Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. -- Walter Scott
  • But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. -- George Takei
  • I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill. -- Charlie Sheen
  • In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. -- Kit Carson
  • I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous. -- Ashton Holmes
  • It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. -- Brian Eno
  • Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. -- George Takei
  • I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again. -- Eddie Redmayne
  • Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting. -- Howard Shore
  • Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub. -- Mary Hunter Austin
  • I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone. -- Liam Payne
  • Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp. -- Elliot Cowan
  • There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back. -- Steve Harvey
  • Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. -- David Bowie
  • Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. -- Will Ferrell
  • On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person. -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went? -- George Carlin
  • I escaped a North Korean prison camp -- Shindong
  • I was my own buddy in camp. -- Joan Rivers
  • I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven -- Muhammad Ali
  • An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. -- Avicenna
  • Of course The Beach Boys will be camp. -- Bruce Johnston
  • Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews. -- Sarah Silverman
  • I hate camping, but I love summer camp. -- Zooey Deschanel
  • The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp. -- John Freeman
  • I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp. -- Jenny Lewis
  • Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. -- Horace
  • No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil. -- Simon Wiesenthal
  • Just so you know, Iâ??ve trusted you since camp. -- Kim Harrison
  • I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp. -- Larry Hovis
  • Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. -- Alan Cohen
  • The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. -- Martin Buber
  • Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying. -- Woody Allen
  • Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. -- Sun Tzu
  • All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. -- Johnny Weissmuller
  • I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss. -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp. -- Edward Klein
  • I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. -- Akshay Kumar
  • Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. -- Victoria Pratt
  • Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire. -- Robyn Davidson
  • Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab. -- Mark Steyn
  • ...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. -- Imre Kertész
  • The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp. -- Halston Sage
  • I don't really watch that much TV. I have training camp to worry about. -- Raylee Johnson
  • In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way. -- Todd Haynes
  • The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find. -- James Carville
  • Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah! -- George Armstrong Custer
  • I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp. -- Terrell Owens
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