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  • Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. -- Benjamin Banneker
  • You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag. -- Tyler Perry
  • If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor. -- George Carlin
  • If you don't want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly -- Joan Rivers
  • I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform. -- Clayton Kershaw
  • The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. -- Robert Baden-Powell
  • America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for. -- Sarah Palin
  • Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going,. -- Bella Freud
  • Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because leotards aren't intimidating. -- Erin McKean
  • A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. -- Mo Yan
  • We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. -- Charles Dickens
  • I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. -- Thor Heyerdahl
  • Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. -- Edmund Burke
  • It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading. -- George S. Patton
  • People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done. -- Walter Brueggemann
  • We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.' -- Elayne Boosler
  • Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing. -- William Martin
  • So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home. -- Barack Obama
  • A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine. -- James F. Amos
  • I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool. -- Shaun Alexander
  • I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms. -- Victoria Beckham
  • I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. -- John Cena
  • I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. -- John Malkovich
  • Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going. -- Bella Freud
  • I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair. -- Camille Guaty
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  • Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. -- Branch Rickey
  • We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla. -- Christian Dior
  • Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. -- Stokely Carmichael
  • Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. -- Russell Means
  • I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry. -- Kourtney Kardashian
  • The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. -- Theophilus London
  • I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes. -- Elle Fanning
  • Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers. -- Vanessa Minnillo
  • Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. -- Joe Garagiola
  • While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. -- John Yoo
  • We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline. -- John Madden
  • No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats. -- Judah Friedlander
  • I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. -- Zosia Mamet
  • What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! -- Duke of Wellington
  • Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms. -- Brittney Griner
  • Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. -- Susan Sarandon
  • The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters. -- Jay Mohr
  • Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. -- Eric Dickerson
  • We don't want any candy stripes on our uniforms. These are work clothes. -- Darrell Royal
  • I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy. -- Kanye West
  • If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant. -- Barack Obama
  • All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss. -- Bill Drummond
  • Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear. -- Richelle Mead
  • Change your mind about playing doctor?" "No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute. -- Rachel Vincent
  • Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography. -- Christopher McQuarrie
  • Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths. -- Harry Styles
  • Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms. -- Goose Gossage
  • Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. -- Caroline Baum
  • So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms. -- Dov Davidoff
  • We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow. -- Emily Dickinson
  • The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller. -- Curt Flood
  • I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms. -- Carolina Herrera
  • Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day. -- Jim Carroll
  • When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. -- Zaha Hadid
  • Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. -- Thor Heyerdahl
  • I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads. -- Ann Coulter
  • What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? -- John Boyne
  • The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. -- Jim Benton
  • I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms. -- David Letterman
  • In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. -- Willie Geist
  • It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. -- Mike Royko
  • I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself. -- Miuccia Prada
  • Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms." -- Branch Rickey
  • You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant. -- Danny Meyer
  • I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me. -- Nancy Pelosi
  • All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off! -- John Wallace
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  • Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro. -- Andy Van Slyke
  • Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry. -- Kourtney Kardashian
  • Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols. -- Ingvar Kamprad
  • Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games. -- Duke Snider
  • There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game. -- Alfred Hitchcock
  • My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be. -- Assata Shakur
  • I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die. -- Marcus Sedgwick
  • Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a guy in a beret. Look at our founding fathers, they all wore berets. -- David Letterman
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