#press

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 am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#best #i #i am #myself #perform

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#find #i #more #nothing #optimism

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate. ↗

— Candy Crowley

#amazed #awe #country #day #debate

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#because #day #different #enough #everybody

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#because #close #delicate #down #longer

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. ↗

— Tim Curry

#business #different #i #i think #industries

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