Helm Quotes - Page 3

• It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Anger, Greek

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

  Sarah Palin

  President, Noble, Want

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Hero, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.

  Taylor Schilling

  Running, Nice, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

  Harvey Gantt

  Men, Invincible

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• Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Falling In Love, Practice, Ships

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  Order, White, House

  "Trends Of 2010: The Political Year In Review". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 15, 2010.

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• While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

  Ellen Willis

  Order, Luxury, Numbers

  "No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays". Book by Ellen Willis, "Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), 1992.

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• [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

  Nina Totenberg

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Justice

  "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.

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• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Sick, Exhibitions

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• I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role. Whilst I'm still young and I still have the looks, I want to take the helm and be a renegade cop, or something like that. He's got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Nice, Diversity, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.

  Thomas Gray

  Blow, Laughing, Rising

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 71

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• What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

  Stephen Marche

  Real, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Art, America

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• It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

  Walter Cronkite

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Years

  "CNN Newsnight" with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

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• I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.

  Laurie Holden

  Walking Dead, Special, Gale

  Source: collider.com

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• I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.

  Adam Reed

  Car, Bars, Gloves

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.

  Eddie Griffin

  Vacation, Years, Captain Kirk

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• I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

  Ed Helms

  Reading, Scripts, Action

  Source: movies.about.com

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• As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Said

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fighting, Editors, Space

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based on like, 100 novels. They're just fantastic. They're set in the '60s. A lot of the visual inspiration definitely came from 1960 James Bond movies and 'OSS 177' and also 'Pink Panther' movies.

  Adam Reed

  Sexy, Book, Inspiration

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Views, Different

  "Daniel Radcliffe Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1". collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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