Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Shoot me in the chest.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
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If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
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The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.
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I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be.
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What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
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There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.
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I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.
