Helicopters Quotes - Page 2

• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Feet, Giving, Bird

  The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

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• Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Breathing, Wife

  "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.

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• That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

  Anna Lindh

  Couple, Fighting, Years

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• So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

  David R. Ellis

  Car, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

  Anthony Anderson

  Fighting, Sky, Firefighter

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

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• I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

  Christie Brinkley

  Falling In Love, Stress, Men

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

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• It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Summer, Successful, Reality

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• I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

  Treat Williams

  Jersey, Instruction, Partners

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

  Jay Kay

  People, Hours, Miles

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

  LL Cool J

  Flying, Want, Reason

  "LL Cool J's Toughest Interviewer? His Daughter". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. September 20, 2010.

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• We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Eyelashes, Names

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• .....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Party

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, Cameras, Looks

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

  Princess Diana

  Blow, One Day

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• In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.

  Jeremy Jones

  Past, Snowboarding, Class

  "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

  Amy Chua

  School, Thinking, Parent

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• I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

  Izabella Scorupco

  World, Pilots, Flight

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• I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

  Ben Bernanke

  Dollars, Economy, Ifs

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• Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Home, Gun

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• I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Insane, Would Be, Stuff

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

  Michael Light

  Clock Is Ticking, Mind, Pilots

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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