Jacqueline Cochran Quotes

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Jacqueline Cochran

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Kids

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Pretty
  • Career

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Violence

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Actions
  • Experiment

• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • College
  • Doing
  • Improv

• It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

  

  Angie Everhart
  • Time
  • American
  • Support

• What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Fun
  • More
  • Critic

• Customer service is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate type of activity.

  

  Leon Gorman
  • Service

• To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

  

  Jacqueline Cochran
  • Live
  • Death
  • Risk