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After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. -- Elvis Presley
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. -- Etgar Keret
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training. -- James Nachtwey
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. -- Jonathan Kozol
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem. -- Art Donovan
I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear... -- Charles Bukowski
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines. -- Thomas Holcomb
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself. -- Jonathan Kozol
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self. -- Edward Steichen
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. -- Jack Adams
To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. -- William H. McRaven
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament. -- Daniel Everett
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. -- Keanu Reeves
For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard. -- Kim Yuna
My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training. -- William H. McRaven
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. -- William H. McRaven
We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. -- Richard Lamm
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. -- Dennis Green
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School. -- Frederick Lenz
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School. -- Frederick Lenz

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