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• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  Wally Schirra

  Real, Houston, Fierce

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• If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

  Keith Olbermann

  Baseball, Light, Fans

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• And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

  Murray Walker

  Change, Car, Tea

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• In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love, Book, Reading

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

  Norman Mailer

  Technology, Men, Church

  "A Fire on the Moon".

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• In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.

  Brian Bosworth

  Crazy, Boys, Reality

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• There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Heart, Mean, Gun

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

  Alice Cooper

  Family, Mother, Shields

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces, 1981

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• If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

  Augustus William Hare

  Sheep, White, Poetry

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.243

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• In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Dark, Light, Sea

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• It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Issues, Church

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.173, Canongate Books

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• Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.

  Kate Clinton

  Sports, Football, Struggle

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.60, Bywater Books

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• Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.

  Jon Stewart

  Depressing, Thinking, Disease

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• At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Book, Moon

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• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  Victoria Moran

  Baby, Giving Up, Alcohol

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

  Summer Sanders

  Mom, Running, Home

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• Football really was my salvation in high school. For some kids it's art. For some it's music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team.

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Football, Art, Team

  Rudy Ruettiger, Mark Dagostino (2012). “Rudy: My Story”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Opportunity, Player

  "Clinton Portis: Crackdown on Hitting Could Make Game Less Exciting". Interview with Jason Reid, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2010.

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• down the sidewalk
  where laborers feed their dirty
  glistening torsos sandwiches
  and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
  on. They protect them from falling
  bricks, I guess.

  Frank O'Hara

  Dirty, Fall, Cities

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.257, Univ of California Press

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• I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

  C. J. Wilson

  Fun, Bats, Accessories

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.

  Bill Goldberg

  Football, Team, Kids

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

  Phil Daniels

  Heart, Waiting, Riding

  "Portrait of the artist: Phil Daniels, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, White, Feet

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• A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Shepherds, Ornaments

  John Ruskin (1859). “The two paths: being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9”, p.17

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