“I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.” ThinkingWantYearsTwoStatesPresidentChallengesDarkUnitedBreakCasesUnited StatesDutyVotePrisonVicesTiesFedsCampsSenateScrapVice PresidentArizonaVietnamese Author:John McCain
“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.” YearsHappensKidsChristianCoursesFoundLostReligiousIdentityBrokenCitizensSixTrainingCellsSatanAlsCampsAfghanistanCompoundsTreasonPilgrimageMustacheBuffaloBroken UpLutheransShaved Head Author:James Lileks
“Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” ThinkingKnowsShouldWritingLittlesLastsGuyCreativeSawsTeacherPleaseLaborBlindCombatCampsCreative WritingConfinedHarpsInstructorsIliad Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back on companies that have successfully launched independent disruptive business units, the CEO always had a foot in both camps. Never have they succeeded when they spin something off in order to get it off the CEO's agenda. The CEOs that did this had extraordinary personal self-confidence, and almost always they were the founders of the companies.” SelfOrderCompanyRolesTechnologyFeetIndependentExtraordinaryCriticalSelf ConfidenceAgendasCampsFoundersLooking BackUnitsCeoDisruptive Author:Clayton Christensen
“I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.” MenYearsDifferentGuyFiveSixSummerAdultsEightWideSpendingRangeFortyDisabilityCampsDifferent PlaceGreat TimesSyndromesCabins Author:Arthur Bradford
“While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.” NeedsCrimeRegardOver ItCampsTrappedPalestinianGet OverRefugeeOngoingLecturesRefugee Camps Author:Max Blumenthal
“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.” IfsLooksPresidentOrganizationDataCampsAmerican HistoryRequestFbiCensusInternmentPresident RooseveltInternment CampsCensus Bureau Author:Michele Bachmann
“A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.” PeopleThinkingMomentsBigsGovernmentValuesInterestingModelsConnectionsFactorsCorporateRevelationsCampsValleysRootedSurveillanceNsaSiliconSilicon ValleyBusiness ModelsNew BusinessGovernment Surveillance Author:Astra Taylor
“Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.” StoriesCollectionsCampsShort StoryReins Author:Roy Kesey
“I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.” YearsShowsCrazyCampsIdolsBootsStressfulAmerican IdolBoot Camp Author:Jessica Sanchez
“I think that everybody that's coming out to Warped Tour, when they come to see the show, they're always like; let's go see that band that band that band and... that girl. I think that I tend to be that girl sometimes and I think that it's cool that I get to hang out with this Summer camp of smelly boys.” ThinkingSometimesShowsGirlBoysBandSummerHanging OutCampsComing OutThat GirlSummer CampSmellyWarped Tour Author:Katy Perry
“I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.” WellsHas BeensIdeasHomeBodySchoolFeltTermFieldsPoetFitGenderNo IdeaVisualsCollaborationCampsConferencesTribute Author:Denise Duhamel
“I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.” LongMiddleCampsTentsMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Rita Ora
“That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors.” DifferentCharacterShowsBodyCareActorsVoiceBasesScriptsTechniqueStayingPushingCampsBootsMentalityBroadwayGrindNuanceParamountBoot Camp Author:Eddie George
“When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps.” KnowsWorldWritingWellsFoundKnownHellHappenedMiddleResearchLiberationConcentrationPrisonerBuriedCampsWell KnownAuschwitzConcentration CampNot Well Known Author:Laszlo Nemes
“I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.” KnowsHandsTalkingPiecesSeeingArmsMeetingsEightTortureSurvivorPrisonerCampsHolocaustThreadTattooNeedlesHolocaust SurvivorAbu GhraibNeedle And Thread Author:Jill Soloway
“My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps and programs for autistic kids. When I went to McGill as an undergraduate, I figured I'd be a therapist working with these kids. The truth is, and I knew this even back then, I'm just not good at this. I'm too empathic to do this sort of thing.” KidsBrotherTruth IsProgramTeenagerMy BrotherCampsTherapistsAutisticUndergraduate Author:Paul Bloom
“The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.” PeopleIfsWorldSaidBigsWantedSidesDealsOrdinaryPrisonLovelyDelusionRegionsCampsBig DealCaribbeanNavalNotoriousLovely ThingsBuchenwald Author:Molly Crabapple
“I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.” TryingWantedActingSummerEnjoyedCampsRealisedSummer Camp Author:Jared Gilman
“It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.” IfsNeedsTryingWellsLooksFoundGamesFunPracticeSummerHeyTennisEditorsCampsRespectableEditsFound YouSummer CampTennis Game Author:Paul Reiser
“I think Justin Bieber played a couple of songs up the block from it - and they said that some-one in his camp came and got him a burger. We had been talking about him a lot. Especially actually, last time we came to Australia, C.T. was on a real big Justin Bieber kick. I just thought it was really interesting to finally cross paths with him in New Zealand. And like really - the TV, everyone's just talking about it on the radio - it's a big deal that he was here. I think he just left.” ThinkingSaidRealBigsLastsSongLeftInterestingDealsTalkingPathTvsCoupleCrossesRadioBlockKicksAustraliaCampsLast TimeThey SaidBig DealReally InterestingNew ZealandBurgersJustin Author:Chris Baio
“Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.” WantTryingPlayHelpingKidsSchoolOpportunityFeltCommunityAcceptanceSummerGuitarBeing YourselfGradesCampsNew ThingsSummer Camp Author:Lisa Loeb
“As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment. As a wife, anything that my husband is passionate about and helps to support. As a community member, anything that supports the Vail Valley, the place that I call home. As a friend of the founder and true believer in their mission, an organization called First Descents. They provide adventure camps to young adults and adults with cancer or who have survived cancer.” FirstsChildrenHelpingHomeSchoolYoungMotherCommunitySupportWifeAdventureHusbandMembersAdultsProgramOrganizationYoung AdultPassionateCancerMissionsBelieverMy ChildrenMy HusbandCampsValleysFoundersSurvivedDescentTrue BelieverEnrichment Author:Trista Sutter
“I started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them for three summers to a nonacademic, holistic summer camp as a means to help them acclimate socially, geographically, spiritually to pilot secondary schools that they hope to attend.” MeanHelpingSchoolThreeCommunityStudentsSummerCommitPerformingFundCampsPilotsHolisticNonprofitsSummer CampSecondary SchoolPegasus Author:Jonathan Tucker
“I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.” ThinkingMindShowsHouseStuffTvsQuietNewsCampsTv ShowsVansCarpentry Author:Chad Urmston
“There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.” PeopleTryingPainThreeMillionsTenConflictCamps Author:Chad Urmston
“I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.” IdeasMightAbleFilmEnemySpeciesGoing AwayCampsPirateLashesRum Author:Johnny Depp
“I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.” ThinkingWorldLongHardReadingSpeakMaterialsGayTraditionVisibleFascinatingCamps Author:Todd Haynes
“In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.” ThinkingWayMusic IsBrilliantCamps Author:Todd Haynes
“Sometimes it's summer camp on location. So it's nice to have a little New York community of people you love.” PeopleLittlesSometimesCommunityNiceNew YorkSummerCampsLocationSummer Camp Author:Paul Dano
“I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.” WritingTryingYearsChildrenBookNotesMusicalAverageDetermineEightProducersCampsSensibility Author:Charles Busch
“My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.” HomeLastsNextSonSummerMy SonCampsOscarsShelvesSurfingTrophiesLast Summer Author:Geena Davis
“American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several more training camps and we'll likely see more strikes in the coming weeks and months. So the U.S. is watching all this carefully and will strike what they call targets of opportunity whenever they can.” LastsFallOpportunityLeaderWeekMonthsTrainingStrikesTargetCampsIsisLibyaTraining Camp Author:Tom Bowman
“Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.” ThinkingYearsLittlesLongMadeTwoRememberOrderBornClassFireOne ThingTreeBrotherMomCrossesMy MomShouldersBridgesMy BrotherGradesCampsRedwoods Author:Zendaya
“A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.” PeopleWayCultureSituationAdvantageCampsCruz Author:Benjamin Carson
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.” PeopleIfsPersonsIdeasHelpingBodyFilmFacesGuyWatchesSonPerspectiveShotsFamiliarGasConcentrationCategoriesCampsInteractionChamberConcentration CampGas Chambers Author:Bun B
“It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.” GirlRocksGuitarSillyCampsPlaying GuitarBeing Silly Author:Courtney Barnett
“I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.” FirstsWarWholeSpaceHalfPovertyCenturyLaborPopulationDeterminedRoughCampsGenocideYearning Author:George Meyer
“I don't really watch that much TV. I have training camp to worry about.” WatchesWorryTvsTrainingCampsTraining Camp Author:Raylee Johnson
“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeHas BeensLawHumanityCasesCrimeExampleLowsEvidenceTrialsCampsAcceptableDocumentsDocumentaries80sCrimes Against HumanityDeath Camps Author:Marvin Hier
“I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.” BelieveChristianLeaderHigherStandardsCampsHigher StandardsChristian Leaders Author:Max Lucado
“I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl Delisha [Thomas] and Makeba [Riddick]. I brought basically five writers to work on different ideas. You either make the cut or you don't.” IdeasDifferentGirlFiveCuttingCampsThis GirlDifferent Ideas Author:Rodney Jerkins
“When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.” YoungUsedTaughtCampsBahaBaha I Author:Cass McCombs
“The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil.” BelieveForgottenSoilConcentrationCampsVirginsLiving OnReservationsConcentration Camp Author:Richard Rodriguez
“We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.” PeopleNeedsAcceptingFitAverageCamps Author:John Amaechi
“I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.” FeelsHomeSeemsParentNormalVictimCampsNazi Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I was sent to sleepover camp since I was 6, and you know, it's a recipe for disaster.” KnowsDisasterCampsRecipesSleepovers Author:Sarah Silverman
“In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.” PlayCharacterSchoolHigh SchoolPerformingCampsSectionsForensics Author:Allison Silverman
“Shaking up whole region means that Israel needs the US for its safety and military camps are "flourishing" everywhere in the Middle East. It has been said that Barack Obama is less interested in the Middle East. I don't think so. This mess has been created and maintained. Maybe the US is pretending to be less interested, however, it allows them to take their power back when it comes to security.” ThinkingNeedsMeanHas BeensSaidWholeMiddleSecurityMilitarySafetyIsraelEastMessBarackRegionsPretendingCampsMiddle EastShakingBack WhenFlourishing Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.” TryingCampsGreeceMario Author:Jean-Claude Juncker