#press

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#olympic #olympic games #overwhelming #pressure #real

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#bush #called #cause #compared #critics

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece. ↗

— Katie Couric

#conversing #doing #fun #get #having

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#british #expect #had #happiness #happy

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#both #bulwark #certain #constitution #expression

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#beings #civilization #exist #express #freely

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#bullets #discovered #i #injustice #real

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#certain #declare #either #fools #inhabitants

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#depression #friends #good #good friends #i

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#art #else #expressive #just #me