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Helmet Quote by Kate Adie

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“Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.”

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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive…

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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a…

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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in…

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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in…

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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

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“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.”

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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the…

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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship,…

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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,…

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UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

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I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and…

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A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to…

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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…

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Every time I put my helmet on it's a challenge.

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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…

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I've put on a helmet more times than I've buckled a seatbelt.

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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

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A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.

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There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be…

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Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's…

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