‘Blowback,’ as many ‘Nation’ readers are aware, was a term introduced into popular circulation by the late political scientist Chalmers Johnson, an old Cold Warrior turned dissident. – Greg Grandin
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do. – Monica Crowley
I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it’s a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It’s a poor man’s weekend warrior racer event. – Michael Trucco
I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. – Madeleine Albright
I collect firearms, and I’ve got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it’s got feathers and beads hanging off it. It’s like a work of art. – Joe Perry
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second. – Ken Kesey
My dad and I used to watch ‘Ninja Warrior’ all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, ‘I could do that,’ kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious. – Kacy Catanzaro
Technically a memoir, ‘The Woman Warrior’ becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions. – Karen Joy Fowler
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan’s own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became. – Jeff Grubb
Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior. – Raquel Welch
My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends. – Robin Zander
Nicknamed ‘Mad-Dog Mattis’ by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn’t an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining. – Ryan Zinke
Since I played a warrior in ‘Magadheera,’ my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard. – Ram Charan
Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled. – Ryan Zinke
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. – Richard Dawkins
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence. – Tecumseh
I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think. – Tom Brady
I’m not a big guy anyway. I’m only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for ‘Batman,’ 179 for ‘Warrior.’ Films make you look big. – Tom Hardy
I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western – the drifter who comes into town with secrets – I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories. – Simon Toyne