Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
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I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.
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I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.
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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
