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Helen Thomas Quotes

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1920 - July 20, 2013

Topics

Myself Day Liar Run More Need

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

Live Men Risks People Slavery Up

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Punk Standards Playing Many Very

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

Pain Me Voice Giving Create Want

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.

Time Words Reading Process You

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Good Sad People Think You Back

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Family Children Sports Job Travel

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Marvin Hamlisch

Music People Evening Play Whole

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.

Life You Pay Singer Take Bills

One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.

People Know Washington Will Position

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

Money Pressure Feel Mean Sales Kid

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

Claes Oldenburg

Painting Action Treat Paint Streets

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.

Courage Me Voice Long Possible Two

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