Billy Mitchell Quotes
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
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There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses.
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People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right."
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
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With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
