Firefighter Quotes - Page 2

• I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

  Yancy Butler

  Writing, Shows, Wanted

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• Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

  Dick York

  Time, Theatre, Radio

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• I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

  Leslie Fiedler

  People, Novelists, Want

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• A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

  John Burroughs

  Inspiration, Wanted

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• I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

  Mary Cassatt

  Art, Noses, Saws

  Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”

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• I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

  Linda Lavin

  Mother, Want, Wanted

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• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  Adam Arkin

  Team, Player, Ensemble

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Giving

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• Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

  Bryan Ferry

  Music, Looks, Hendrix

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• I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

  David Friedman

  Albums, Records, Nancy

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• This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

  Art Buchwald

  Birthday, Way, Wonderful

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• Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

  Tyra Banks

  Design, Fickle, Next

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• Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

  James Gandolfini

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Earth Day, Environmental

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

  Charles Kuralt

  Growing Up, Kids, Answers

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• I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

  Josh Holloway

  Doctors, Secret, Agents

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• If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Teacher, Political, Enemy

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Goal, People, Burning

  Brian D. McLaren (2008). “Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

  Barbara Mikulski

  Training, Needs, Proud

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• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Police, Way

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• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.

  Muriel Gray

  Wall, Intelligent, Fire

  "Glasgow School of Art fire: 'iconic and unique library is lost'" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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