Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
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It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
