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Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

In those days there was not so much pressure on us.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.