#figurehead

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#centre #doors #figure #figurehead #into

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #basketball player #because #business #else

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#band #either #else #figurehead #going

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#became #boss #doing #done #else

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting! ↗

— David Prowse

#become #campaign #figurehead #george #give

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me. ↗

— Pam Bondi

#attorney general #because #become #figurehead #general