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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
Willard Wigan / Artist
Flying
Fun
Helicopters
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And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
Treat Williams / Actor
Helicopters
Planes
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner / Daredevil
Becoming
Helicopters
Percent
Pilots
Sure
Helicopter
Pilot
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Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy / Novelist
Helicopters
Memorable
Rejects
Vibrate
Badly
Fly
Ground
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Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.
Victor Lewis-Smith / Columnist
Helicopters
Needs
Proof
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Helicopters
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Used
Northern
Promote
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I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Dollars
Economy
Helicopters
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I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.
Heidi Klum / Model
Flying
Helicopters
Scared
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You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
Meg Cabot / Author
Relationship
Blow
Helicopters
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The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
Dave Barry / Author
Badness
Helicopters
Numbers
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I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.
Miriam Defensor Santiago / Judge
Helicopters
Ifs
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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
Helicopters
One Day
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I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
Sebastian Pinera / Former President Of Chile
Adventure
Affection
Helicopters
Scuba
Dive
Scuba Dive
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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 / Film Director
Car
Helicopters
Tvs
Tv
Episodic
Helicopter
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No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
Jacqueline Mckenzie / Actress
Helicopters
Camera
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A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Cutting
Helicopters
Milton
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I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.
Vic Morrow / Actor
Crash
Helicopters
Premonition
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Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.
Shane Filan / Singer-Songwriter
Helicopters
One Day
Plans
Bought
Fly
Helicopter
Licence
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If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
Emmanuel Jal / Musician
Firing
Gun
Helicopters
Horrible
Hour
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Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
Peter York / Author
Aspire
Helicopters
House
Mary
Missing
Serious
Life Money New
Houses
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I flew helicopters, which actually is the second best view of the earth. The first best view is, I think, a little bit higher.
Sunita Williams / Astronaut
Flew
Helicopters
Higher
Little Bit
Second
View
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I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
Nadya Suleman /
Flying
Helicopters
Hospital
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The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.
Oscar Arias / Former President Of Costa Rica
Fighter
Helicopters
Tanks
Armed
Clinics
Jets
Schools
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I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
Sunita Williams / Astronaut
Coast
Couple
Deployment
East
East Coast
Flew
Flying
Helicopters
Persian
Persian Gulf
Gulf
Mediterranean
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Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
Richard Engel / Journalist
Deployment
Dozen
Helicopters
Massive
Bin
Carried
Raid
Trained
Troop
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Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
F. Gary Gray / Music Video Director
Dialogue
Helicopters
Short Films
Music Videos
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I'm sad that my childhood came just slightly before the lithium-ion-battery boom, because I would've killed for the cheap radio-controlled helicopters they have now.
Randall Munroe / Author
Helicopters
Boom
Cheap
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Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea.
Kris Kristofferson / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Flew
Helicopters
Mexico
Personnel
Resigned
Sea
Gulf
Platform
Rig
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I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.
Christie Brinkley / Model
Accidents
Crash
Helicopters
Runaway
Life My Life Control
Horses
Injuries
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We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.
Sergei Lavrov /
Afghan
Arms
Enforcement
Helicopters
Law Enforcement
Officers
Security Forces
Agencies
Cooperate
Facilities
Forces
Transit
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Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!
Pranav Mistry /
Architect
Biologist
Helicopters
Painter
Writer
Drew
Sketches
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The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
Harry Reasoner / Journalist
Airplane
Different
Events
Helicopters
Incompetent
Unusual
Too
Fly
Interfered
Strongly
Wants
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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Photographer
Angle
Different
Framing
Harness
Helicopters
Planes
Portraits
Used
Great Always Me
Aerial
Close-Up
Great Me Always
Portrait
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I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.
Molly Bloom /
Flying
Helicopters
Miami
Shopping
Driver
Full-Time
Houses
Privately
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The Coast Guard evokes images of search and rescue operations, maybe during Hurricane Katrina, or guys jumping out of helicopters wearing snorkels and fins - and that's accurate, but only part of the picture.
Brianna Keilar /
Accurate
Coast
Coast Guard
Helicopters
Hurricane Katrina
Jumping
Operations
Rescue
Guard
Hurricane
Images
Search
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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 / Swedish Politician
Assistance
Catastrophe
Couple
Fighting
Flooding
Guides
Helicopters
Instance
Resources
Years
Years Ago
Couple Of Years Ago
Local
Properly
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For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
Jeff Carlson /
Loyalty
Bombs
Cleverness
Doomsday
Exploding
Grit
Helicopters
Self Sacrifice
Dealing
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So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
Jeff Greenfield / Journalist
Band
Helicopters
Nba
Seats
Wake Up
Choice
Disposal
Playoff
Stands
Wake
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In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
Martin Jacques / Journalist
Centre
Defeat
Helicopters
Personnel
Rescue
Seeking
Spectacular
Vietnam
Buildings
Closed
Suffered
North Vietnam
Tops
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The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
Warren Rudman / Attorney
Had Enough
Helicopters
Law And Order
Military
Military Force
Population
Centers
Immediately
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Alice Walker / Author
War
Air
Bombs
Fragile
Fuel
Global Warming
Helicopters
Interconnected
Planes
Rockets
Surprise
Water
Being Used
Global
Greatly
Warming
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Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
Ken Goldberg / Artist
Decades
Experts
Feats
Flying
Helicopters
New Approach
Observing
Online
Program
Robots
Signing
Tasks
Attempts
Perform
Complex
Motions
Recording
Surgical
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Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Divided
Drawing
Helicopters
Leonardo
Artificially
Artists
Centuries
Close
Scientists
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I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
Kris Kristofferson / Singer-Songwriter
Cleaning
Columbia
Couple
Five
Flying
Helicopters
Mexico
Office
One Thing
Setting
Studios
Week
Working
Gulf
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Blood
Blood Pressure
Combat
Congress
Dosage
Fine
Fourteen
Helicopters
Medication
Pressure
Recovery
Six
Survived
Hospital
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The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'
Winona Laduke / Activist
Helicopters
Indian
Military
Missiles
Native
Reality
Term
Apache
Base
Call
Full
Leave
Foreign Country
Hawk
Reservation
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The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.
Jane Velez-Mitchell / Journalist
Cattle
Claims
Critics
Grazing
Helicopters
Motive
Pens
Starvation
Brutally
Chase
Claim
Holding
Horses
Plains
Save
Sends
Traumatized
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I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
Kris Kristofferson / Singer-Songwriter
Bills
Failing
Flying
Grief
Helicopters
Hours
Liberating
Lost
Mexico
Oil
Support
Child
Act
Bottle
Child Support
Fired
Gulf
Letting
Looked
Songwriter
Trashed
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