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I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

Gene Kelly
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I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by gu... by George Eliot

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

George Eliot
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. by Gordon Lightfoot

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

Gordon Lightfoot
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

George Bernard Shaw
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How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

Gretel Ehrlich
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For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

Hal Moore
too-muchsailorworld
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, wh... by H. G. Wells

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H. G. Wells
hellchurchsailor

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

H. L. Mencken
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Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach... by James Lawrence

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it

James Lawrence
navigationablesailor

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Henry David Thoreau
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As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging m... by Jimmy Webb

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Jimmy Webb
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One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers. by John Adams

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

John Adams
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Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

John Fowles
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I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen. by John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

John Ratzenberger
policemensoldiersailor
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin... by Kathy Acker

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

Kathy Acker
berlinbigssailor

I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

Keith Coogan
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I have the mouth of a sailor. by Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Kristen Bell
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You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

L.A. Meyer
tearssailorthinking

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

Larry Craig
risksoldiersailor

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

Leah Remini
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