Top 941 Naval Academy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

I finished my career in Australia and started my Academy, showing kids technique. I just loved it.

Investing in our emerging leaders through the Missouri Leadership Academy is important to improving state government.

I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

I was at an academy for basically my whole life when I played tennis, so I had the same schedule every single day.

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year history. ... As the U.S. continues to withdraw from overseas bases, Naval Forces will become even more relevant in meeting American forward presence requirements.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

I set up the KC Academy to get more people from a black background into cycling.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

Our goal with Khan Academy Kids is to inspire a life-long love of learning.

At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.

In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.

I know the Academy Awards are all about the art, and love, of movie making. But I have to say, my favorite part is the dresses!

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened - that system is a failure.