Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
